Purpose Of Life Quotes - Page 11

• The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nature, Purpose, Life Is

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.41, Oxford University Press

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• The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

  Dalai Lama

  Men, Should Have, Important

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• The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

  Meher Baba

  Life, Purpose, Done

  Meher Baba, A. C. S. Chari (1969). “84 Questions & Answers on Avatar Meher Baba”

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• You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

  Tracy Kidder

  Life, Inspire, Purpose

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• Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

  Stedman Graham

  Fear, Vision, Vision Of Life

  Stedman Graham (1998). “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

  Eric Hoffer

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Happiness, Beautiful, Heart

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• From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.

  Mark Helprin

  Song, Long, Political

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• The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cute, Soul, Lost Friendship

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• But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspiring, Fun, Offering

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Grief, Purpose, Lessons

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• I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

  Beverly Sills

  Love, Feel Better, Maturity

  "Bubbles: A Self-portrait". Book by Beverly Sills, p. 114, 1976.

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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Greatness

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• Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

  Alan Cohen

  Meaningful, Purpose, Ifs

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• Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Nuts, Feet

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• Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.

  Vasily Grossman

  Lying, Struggle, Party

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• Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?

  Ted Dekker

  Laughter, Mad, Joy

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• Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.

  David Deida

  Men, Purpose, Cheat

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Dream, Purpose, Want

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.

  Alan Cohen

  Choices, Remember Who You Are, Want

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• Every path serves a purpose.

  Gene Oliver

  Life, Purpose, Path

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• The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.

  Charles J. Shields

  Destiny, Hands, Purpose

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• Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

  Brian Tracy

  Sports, Decide Upon, Choices

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• We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

  Richard Dawkins

  Purpose

  "Religion and Atheism". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2012.

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