Finding our purpose
Your success is defined by your desire to reach your potential.
For they say that the course of human life resembles the letter Y, because every one of men, when he has reached the threshold of early youth, and has arrived at the place "where the way divides itself into two parts," is in doubt, and hesitates, and does not know to which side he should rather turn himself.
It's not what happens to you, it's not what happens to me, it's what happens in us that's make the difference in this crisis.
Wisdom is always extracted from adversity.
Logic doesn’t motivate us—emotions do.
Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.
Personal purpose, start with these questions: How will the world be better off thanks to you having been on this earth? What are your unique gifts and superpowers? Who have you been when you’ve been at your best? Who must you fearlessly become? At the intersection of these four questions lies your personal purpose.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
It takes discipline to focus only on high-value targets instead of giving in to the temptation of the low-hanging fruit life serves up daily.
It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren’t really sure what you want.
A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary to find your own sense of purpose-whatever touches your heart and holds meaning for you.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.
If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now.
The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
Who you work for is more important than what you do.
The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
What one can be one must be!
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
If you’re on the right track doing what serves your soul, then you’re going to feel good, relaxed, and peaceful. Your heart will beat steadily, your energy will remain high, and you’ll be relatively free from aches, pains, anxiety, or stress.
The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life—to avoid becoming so diminished or dissipated or subjugated that who you are becomes disconnected from who you were or who you want to be.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.
Find a happy person, and you will find a project.
Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.
Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.
For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live. Learn to master the moment of decision and you will live a life uncommon.
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
The choices that are most powerful in generating motivation, in other words, are decisions that do two things: They convince us we’re in control and they endow our actions with larger meaning.
Wisdom, in all these forms, mainly requires understanding the difference between good, bad, and indifferent things. Virtue is good and vice is bad, but everything else is indifferent.
Instead of trying to be great, be part of something greater than yourself.
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.
“We all love things that other people think are garbage. You have to have the courage to keep loving your garbage, because what makes us unique is the diversity and breadth of our influences, the unique ways in which we mix up the parts of culture others have deemed “high” and the “low.”
When you find things you genuinely enjoy, don’t let anyone else make you feel bad about it. Don’t feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the things you enjoy. Celebrate them.”
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.
As Carol Dweck says, “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.
The pursuit of meaning — not happiness — is what makes life worthwhile.
We all often think about what’s easy to think about, rather than what’s right to think about.
A major part of living a life of self-motivation is having something to wake up for in the morning—something that you are “up to” in life so that you will stay hungry.
Stop shooting for happiness. You are aiming too low.
Never use guilt as motivation.
If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.
Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt.
Teddy Roosevelt said, “The best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
But knowing what we want means, in essence, being able to anticipate accurately how one choice or another will make us feel, and that is no simple task.
A person without purpose is like a ship without a rudder.
Purpose endows a person with joy in good times and resilience in hard times, and this holds true all through life.
...anyone can find purpose and pursue it with rich benefits to themselves and to others.
In order to find purpose, children must survey the world around them and determine where and how they can make their own contribution.
When you come to understand your ‘why,’ you will figure out your way. And once you do this, you will come to appreciate that we have only two limitations in life: our ability to dream and the courage to follow those dreams.
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