Life without purpose can feel meaningless
Life without purpose can feel meaningless. After a person has been given everything he can realize that everything is not enough to matter unless there is purpose associated with it purpose can only come from yourself. Meaning. Purpose. Emptiness.
— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)
In the book
The man who chases it spends all day saving the world's opinion of him while starving the actual life he was given. And there is a particular emptiness reserved for the one who finally gets everything he was chasing and discovers it was never the destination at all. The opposite error is just as deadly, and quieter: the refusal of all risk, the life spent on the couch avoiding every stress and every pain — which is its own slow way of going down, because a life with all the danger removed is not safe, it is merely unlived. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)
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