Purpose

What are your purposes, your goals? Are your purposes adaptable? Do they need to be? How much of your personality is good for your purposes as is, and how much needs to be re-negotiated? Are you stubborn? Is your Life a negotiable contract with the world?

Do you tailor your behavior to your purpose? Do you adapt your purpose to the real world? Do you correct your personality according to the way your purpose meets the real world? Do you allow the real world to guide you and teach you how to change constructively, how to improve yourself, how to develop, evolve and create your own life?

Quotes

'If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, 'I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep back, please: we don't want you with us!"'
'They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle said: 'No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.'
'Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great surprise.
'Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: 'why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going on a journey, I should say "With what porpoise?"'
'Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice.
'I mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone.
And the Gryphon added 'Come, let's hear some of your adventures.'
Lewis Carroll ~ Alice in Wonderland

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ The Brothers Karamazov

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
Steve Maraboli ~ Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”
Robert F. Kennedy

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”
Pearl S. Buck, author

"If you don't know what you're living for, you haven't yet lived.”
Rabbi Noah Weinberg

“I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand.”
Shannon L. Alder

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
Robert Bryne

“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.”
Douglas Coupland, author, Player One: What Is to Become of Us

“We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives”
Brian L. Weiss, psychiatrist, author Many Lives, Many Masters

“A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place to inhabit. So, don’t be afraid to take a stand.”
Ankita Singhal

“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years

“He who has a 'why' to live for, can bear almost any 'how'.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher

“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.”
Gautama Buddha

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller, inspiration, author

“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”
Henry Moore, artist

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
Helen Keller

“There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God, He promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake.”
Shannon L. Alder

“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
Dan Brown, Inferno

“if you want to build a ship, don't drum up the people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.
Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.”
Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation