Purpose Of Life Quotes - Page 17

• You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

  Freeman Dyson

  Wise, Thinking, Fog

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• Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Foundation, Doe

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from May 15, 2010

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• Successful people don't make a daily decision to grow. The decision has already been made and just needs to be fed. To feed success you must ... know your purpose in life, grow daily to reach your maximum potential, and sow seeds that benefit others. Remember, success is not a destination; it's a daily thing.

  John C. Maxwell

  Successful, People, Decision

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• Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about.
  To live without understanding the purpose of life is foolish, a waste of time. The mystery of life surrounds us; we were given intelligence in order to solve it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Order, Understanding, Individuality

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• Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Heart, Differences

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Adversity, Giving, Purpose

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• Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Spiritual, Art, Philosophy

  "Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjala : Patañjala Yoga Pradīpikā".

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• I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Sleep, Motherhood

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About "Room". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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• The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Purpose, Life Is, Goodness

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• Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

  Jerome Jarre

  Media, People, Cinema

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• Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.

  Wayne Dyer

  Doe, Purpose, May

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• Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.

  Frederick Buechner

  Purpose, Calling, World

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• You work for God Incorporated.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Purpose

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• The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Men, Purpose

  "Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology". Book by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, 1929.

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• Whenever I mentor people and help them discover their purpose, I always encourage them to start the process by discovering their strengths, not exploring their shortcomings. Why? Because people's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You are not called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strength zone.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Over You, Mentor

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Opportunity, People, Purpose

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Making films has never just been a job to me, it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going, it's what I do, it gives life purpose.

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Jobs, Book

  “Johnny Depp Retirement Saddens Christopher Lee” by Michael Smith, guardianlv.com. August 10, 2013.

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• That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Purpose

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• The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while it is not possible to disprove an ultimate purpose, there does not seem to be any evidence for it. This is not to say, of course, that there is no purpose in life at all: we all make our own purposes as we go through life. And life does not lose its value simply because it it not going to last forever.

  Barbara Smoker

  Giving, Forever, Atheism

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• Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

  John Stuart Mill

  Purpose, Chance, Ends

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

  Steve Southerland

  Numbers, People, Purpose

  "Food Stamps At The Heart Of Farm Bill Political Drama". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 29, 2013.

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• One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  People, Building Things, Purpose

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• For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Purpose, Might

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.199

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• A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves or storms, or with the whim of the captain. They are tempted to ask, amidst the battles of life, "Is the struggle worth-while?" That attitude lessens the joy of living. They who say that there is no purpose in life are not unhappy, but become dangerous to themselves and others, for they have no safe guide for their actions. Indeed, life has not objective save physical satisfactions, it is empty and valueless.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Attitude, Struggle, Sea

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• There are days when I am envious of my hens:
  when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
  as a single daily egg.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Eggs, Perfect

  Barbara Kingsolver, “Apotheosis”

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