Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Not by Shakespeare, but from Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations, a 1993 self-help book by David S. Viscott.
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/16/purpose-gift/
“Give according to your means, or God will make your means according to your giving.”
Reported in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), p. 194.
“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.”
Section 75
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Context: Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
Session 899, Page 225
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume One (1986)
Variant: Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
