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There’s More To Life Than Being Happy
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This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as it does on human love. When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude. A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.
– Viktor Frankl, in Man’s Search For Meaning
You are unique. You ought to do what no others can do, fulfilling your needs in vastly different ways. Your destiny is not predestined. You create your destiny every day, not by chance, but by choice. Destiny is an achievement. The power to achieve it is in your choices. You have a responsibility to dignify your life through continuously making yourself better. You should aim higher for the good of all.
– Alexandra Stoddard, in You Are Your Choices
Some people are born into their passions. Some never get them and don’t care. But I think if you’re really struggling to find it…it’s almost certainly for a reason. I think the depth of your struggling is the sign there’s something there. Something in you that’s trying to get out. People who don’t have passions don’t struggle.” I didn’t know what I believed when I started my research, but I’d heard enough stories that this was coming clear. Young people often said, ” I feel an urge, a vacuum. But I’m not called to anything in particular.” But those who had succeeded in finding a calling remembered that feeling as the beginning of the process. “The call was muffled and vague at first. That blank urge IS the call.
– Po Bronson, in What Should I Do With My Life?
People who had been through a lot reported that they changed their life, or got clarity, when they became conscious of what kind of person a certain job/industry/lifestyle was turning them into. So the relevant question is not WHAT you will do, but WHO you will become. What belief system will you adopt, and what will take on heightened importance in your life?
– Po Bronson, in What Should I Do With My Life?