Good on Purpose Quotes

“Technology is like the ocean. We cannot wish the ocean away. It's a part of our world. It holds immense power, dark and dangerous depths, incredible beauty, resources that sustain life, and currents that can pull us under or help us move quickly to where we want to go. We need not fear the ocean; instead, we can choose to respect it and learn to avoid its dangers while harnessing its powers and appreciating its beauties. We learn to swim. We learn where the riptides and dangerous currents are so we can avoid them, and we locate the helpful currents so we can take advantage of them. We build ships to navigate the waters and carry heavy loads.”
― Jenny Phillips, Good on Purpose: Living Fully in a Digitally Distracted World

“It is our ordinary, precious days all bundled together that determine the very design of our life.”
― Jenny Phillips, Good on Purpose: Living Fully in a Digitally Distracted World

“If we do not clearly envision what we want our lives to look like, we will never arrive there. We have to choose a good life on purpose.”
― Jenny Phillips, Good on Purpose: Living Fully in a Digitally Distracted World

“When a thousand invisible, calculated hands are reaching for your mind—your minutes and hours, your desires, your peace—you must reach even more deliberately for the things that truly nourish the soul.”
― Jenny Phillips, Good on Purpose: Living Fully in a Digitally Distracted World

“Over time, we stop recognizing how disturbing or mind-numbing the content truly is because our brains have adapted to treat it as ordinary rather than alarming. We take it in day after day (after all, everyone else does) without realizing that even as it promises to satiate our growing need for entertainment and thrill, it doesn't. Instead, it leaves our souls weaker, hungrier, angrier, more anxious, more tired, and further from the fullness we were created to experience.”
― Jenny Phillips, Good on Purpose: Living Fully in a Digitally Distracted World

“Imagine eating five thousand calories a day, but it's all corn syrup and sugar. You would feel constantly stuffed, yet your body would be starved of nutrients . . . We are constantly consuming material with a temporary fill factor but very little to no nutrition. As we try to fulfill our need for connection or purpose through a screen, we are, unsurprisingly, left craving connection more than ever.”
― Jenny Phillips, Good on Purpose: Living Fully in a Digitally Distracted World