Quotes about Purpose

This means that when we ramble on and on about how we have the biggest manufacturing plant on the West Coast, our customers don't care. Why? Because that information isn't helping them eat, drink, find a mate, fall in love, build a tribe, experience a deeper sense of meaning, or stockpile weapons in case barbarians start coming over the hill behind our cul-de-sac. So what do customers do when we blast a bunch of noise

Pain then, if one could have faith in something greater than himself, might be a path to experiencing a meaning beyond the false gratification of personal comfort.

I'm starting to wonder if the whole point of life is to be thankful and to live in such a way others are thankful for theirs as well.

God made me, He knows me, He understands me, and He wants community.

Pain can serve a purpose if we cause it to. Again, while we do not have power over all that happens in the world, we do have power over our perspective. We can choose to take unfair and undue pain and cause it to serve our own story so that we become better. So that we transform.

He wasn't just calling them into a life of sacrifice. He was calling them into a life of meaning, even the kind of meaning that would involve suffering. Suffering for a redemptive reason is hardly suffering, after all.

Financial advisory may offer "A path to a better future" without realizing that could be confused for a gym, a college, a church, or just about anything else.

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

He did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates.

People want to be involved in a story that is larger than themselves.

A good story takes a series of random events and distills them into the essence of what really matters.

Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.