“We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common responsibility of us all. It is not fitting that those concerned with the various aspects of the human be alienated from each other. Both you and ourselves represent forces too profound and aim at objectives too significant for either of us to succeed completely without the assistance of the other. The urgency of our work impels us to get on with our common task lest a new period of disaster erupt over the Earth.” FeelsHumansEarthLife IsForceCommunityCommonQualityResponsibilityPeriodsSucceedConcernedAspectTasksAimProfoundVariousDisasterSignificantObjectivesPreservesAssistanceQuality Of LifeFittingUrgencyHuman QualitiesNot Fitting Author:Thomas Berry
“People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.” PeopleNeedsWellsLife IsPurposeOrderAsksDifficultCreativityEconomicTypeAmbitionTasksAspirationLabourInsecurityContractsPortionsImmenseExhaustionEconomic SystemsRepetitive Author:Tony Benn
“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.” InspirationalWisdomLife IsOpportunityChangeDemandUniqueTasksIndividualityMissionsFulfillmentConcreteFulfilledReplacedVocationAssignmentsSearch For MeaningMans Search For MeaningMissions In LifeFulfilled LifePersonal FulfillmentFulfillment In Life Author:Viktor E. Frankl
“But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.” ThinkingLifeHas BeensI CanLife IsStruggleInspireTasksBe GoodMiscellaneousLife Is Good Author:Morgan Freeman
“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.” MenLifeGivingImportantCharacterLife IsEffortProductsPersonalityBirthTasksIntelligenceBirthdayGiving BirthInspirational BirthdayFinding Your PathBirth LifeMy Own PersonalityPersonality And Character Author:Erich Fromm
“To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.” GivingMindStatesLife IsSimpleBuddhismMindfulnessTasksManifestationState Of MindReverenceReverence For Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.” HeartLife IsSpiritOrderFightingEvilDifficultProgressPlansBattleProtectTasksDirectDifficultyGood ThingsRewardsStriveRighteousCheerfulBracesDifficult Tasks Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.” PeopleWellsEarthLife IsHeavenHellTasksExitNo ExitPaul Sartre Author:Alan Alda
“The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right.” MindFirstsHumansHeartEndsUseLife IsHuman BeingsSimpleChangedLessonsTasksCourtHuman LifeAffectedRuling Author:David Souter
“It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” HumansPlayMightEarthLife IsHeavenDealsObjectsHighestGardenTasksPraiseHuman LifePlaygrounds Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.” SelfWholeSpiritualLife IsLyingPurposeFoundStepsSecurityGoes OnCreatingTasksMeant To BeWrestlingSpiritual LifeTransformed Author:Joan D. Chittister