"desire for purpose" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase can be used when expressing a strong feeling or motivation for something. For example, "After years of drifting, she found a renewed desire for purpose and direction".
JUDE KELLY Artistic Director, Southbank Centre It's interesting how you discover early on a sense of urgency and desire for purpose and apply it to things or, when something hits you – perhaps an injustice or an excitement – it draws from you this sort of drive and motivation.
A desire for purpose and mission.
Tapping into the human desire for purpose, games that provide meaningful engagement are likely to increase people's sense of happiness or satisfaction and increase the likelihood that they will continue these behaviours.
The desire for common purpose wasn't.
This deep found desire for any purpose you believe in cannot be silenced or stopped.
From this collective desire for greater purpose, Covestro's corporate social responsibility program was born, i3 - ignite, imagine, innovate.
Powered by ability, wisdom and a desire for beneficial purpose, a new model of engaged aging is emerging, one that moves away from age-segregation, decline and mass leisure to a model that capitalizes on the value of accumulated knowledge, wisdom and experience.
Fortunately, migration intentions and aspirations have been shown to be good predictors of future actual migration behavior (Van Dalen and Henkens 2008 and 2013; Creighton 2013) and in the Result section we test the validity of using migration desire for the purposes here.
Two (ANFIS) controllers are desired for this purpose.
They are drawn to Syria by a sense of religious obligation, concern about the suffering inflicted on Muslim civilians in the country's civil war, a desire for adventure and purpose and the romance of marrying a fighter.
(To be clear, we are both happily partnered. I'm sketching a metaphor of desire for my own purposes).
