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"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive"
Joseph Campbell
"It's a great feeling to work on something you care about"
Joaquin Phoenix
"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one"
Thomas Carlyle
"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder"
Thomas Carlyle
"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure"
George Sand
"Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God"
Leo Buscaglia
"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'"
Viktor E. Frankl
"When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure"
Viktor E. Frankl
"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter"
Francis Chan
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless"
Steven Weinberg
"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal."
Mary Kay Ash
"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others"
Albert Schweitzer
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
Bertrand Russell
"People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going"
Earl Nightingale
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation"
Corrie Ten Boom
"It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts"
Corrie Ten Boom
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing"
George S. Patton
"One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful"
Dustin Moskovitz
"God never allows pain without a purpose"
Jerry Bridges
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