“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”

“I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done.”

“When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.”

“I want my life to have a purpose. Do you know what I mean?”

“The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.”

“We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.”