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• Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Math, Mind

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.160, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

  Gautama Buddha

  Monday, Work, Heart

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• When the promise is clear, the price gets easy

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Success, Goal

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 02, 2012

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• Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

  Dalai Lama

  Contentment, Desire, Life Is

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.155, Penguin

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• Success demands singleness of purpose.

  Vince Lombardi

  Life, Inspiring, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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  You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

  John Wooden

  Fun, Athlete, Goal

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Wonder, Construction

  Commencement address at York University, Toronto, Canada, 6 Nov. 1982

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• In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.

  T. S. Eliot

  Feelings, Mind, Rooms

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Art

  "Literary and philosophical essays: French, German, and Italian", Collier, Volume 32, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1910.

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• The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.

  Jim Carrey

  People, Church, Concern

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• Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Years, Soul, Despair

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Attitude, Roles

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• Focus on a specific intention... A goal is often fueled by fear... An intention is fueled by a sense of purpose.

  Robert G. Allen

  Goal, Focus, Intention

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• When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

  Bill Viola

  Art, Reflection, Space

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• The purpose of art is delectation.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Art, Purpose Of Art, Art Is

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• Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

  William Cowper

  Life, Happiness, Littles

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• Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

  Arleigh Burke

  Inspiring, Leadership, Determination

  "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book by Karel Montor (p. 18), 1998.

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• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Soul, Consciousness

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• Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

  Amy Carmichael

  Blessed, Blessing, Soul

  Amy Carmichael (2010). “Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement”, p.56, CLC Publications

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• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, True Joy

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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• Without intent all painting is meaningless.

  Christopher Willard

  Painting, Meaningless

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• It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

  Robert Greene

  Selfish, Creating, Goal

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.303, Profile Books

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