Peter Singer Quotes

Everyone serves a purpose.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between...the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.