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food for thought: on purpose
- “He who has the why to live for can bear almost any how.”
– Nietzsche
- “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim
is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach
it.” – Michelangelo
- “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone
monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." –
Pericles
- ‘Give me a man who sings at his work.” –
Thomas Carlyle
- “Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness
of a child at play.”. – Heraclitus
- “Work is love in action.” – Kahil Gibran
- “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, and
a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.”
– Abraham Maslow
- “Most of us are hungry for a self of which we can be proud.”
– Charles Handy
- “I think knowing what you cannot do is more important
than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.”
– Lucille Ball
- “I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one
thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be truly happy
will be those who have sought and found how to serve.” –
Albert Schweitzer
- “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but
rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but
the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
– Victor Frankl
- “Every calling is great when greatly pursued." –
Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Men and women….need and want recognition of their
value and uniqueness. The goal is not to make women more like
men, or men more like women, but for everyone to become most like
themselves.” – Eleanor Brantley Schwartz
- “To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept
your soul alive.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to
rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate
work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart
first opened.” – Albert Camus
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