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miete ("thought") + lause ("phrase")
count: 12
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You have to know why you do what you do -- what you prize and what's important to you. Or you will be endlessly comparing yourself against other people, which will not only be a major distraction, it will make you miserable.
page: 35
tags:
why
purpose
To be engrossed in something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind.
page: 102
tags:
purpose
Maybe what you've written will help others, will be a small part of the solution. You don't even have to know how or in what way, but if you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
page: 235
tags:
truth
communication
purpose
Purpose: my work is important - both to me and to others
page: 91
tags:
purpose
Purpose: the intention to contribute to the well-being of others.
page: 146
tags:
purpose
1) discover a problem that needs solving and 2) that you personally can make a difference
page: 162
tags:
purpose
The fastest way to improve someone's everyday quality of life is to "bestow on a person a specific goal, something to do and to look forward to." When a clear goal is attached to a specific task, it gives us an energizing push, a sense of purpose.
page: 57
tags:
goals
purpose
Meaning is the feeling that we're a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's the belief that our actions matter beyond our own individual lives.
page: 97
tags:
meaning
purpose
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
page: 114
tags:
goals
purpose
the purposes of subunits may add up to an overall behavior that no one wants
page: 10
tags:
behavior
purpose
a system generally goes on being itself, changing only slowly if at all, even with complete substitutions of its elements--as long as its interconnections and purposes remain intact
page: 16
tags:
systems
purpose
Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job, not a calling.
page: 69
tags:
calling
purpose
lifestyle