“Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on that which is essential? When things of the world crowd in, all too often the wrong things take highest priority. Then it is easy to forget the fundamental purpose of life. Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with 'good things' so there is no room for the essential ones. Have you unconsciously been caught in that trap?” PeopleWorldHardUsePurposeEasyChallengesForgetRoomsPowerfulEssentialsHighestToolsExcitingFundamentalsGood ThingsCaughtCrowdsFocusedPrioritiesThings To DoSatanFascinatingPurpose Of LifeGood PeopleDistractionTrapsWrong ThingsExciting Things Author:Richard G. Scott
“In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.” MindFeelingsPurposeRoomsUnfinishedVindictivenessNew Feelings Author:T. S. Eliot
“Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.” IfsRealDoneMightPurposeWaitingRoomsCommonSeriousConstantDoing NothingRigorWaiting RoomsPurposelessnessRigor Mortis Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE? Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?
“In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.” EndsMovingJoyMotherPurposeUnderstandingHoursRoomsNumbersHalfDesignBuildingProjectsSummerModelsStructureSizeFinishedTinyGradesDevicesNutsMetalsAirplaneFourthPlasticCriteriaLiving RoomBoltsKindergartenFourth GradeNuts And BoltsMoving PartsHappy HourWarships Author:Steven Chu
“I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.” BookPurposeCoursesFoundSleepRoomsResultsDestinyHellSlaveMotherhoodExistentialismPurpose Of LifeCrashMistressMy Destiny Author:Emma Donoghue
“The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or not, it is not possible to create an ideal society with imperfect people. And this, unfortunately, we are. So the main purpose for Nazism as well as for Communism was to create a 'new person'. In order to make room for it, the world needed to be rid of its non-perfect models.” PeopleWorldWellsPersonsPurposeOrderPerfectRoomsEffortViolenceBuildingNeededModelsIdealsCommunismImperfectNazismIdeal Society Author:Mart Laar