Purpose Of Life Quotes - Page 17

• When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Mirrors, Play, Finding Yourself

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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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• 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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• His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old. He had resolved that his beautiful white hands would never be soiled or calloused. He wanted to be like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind. The only thing that seemed valid to him was to live for the emotions--gratuitous and unstable, dying only to quicken again, dwindling and flaring without direction or purpose.

  Yukio Mishima

  Beautiful, Hands, Years

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

  Thomas Merton

  Compassion, Ideas, Purpose

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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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• 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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• I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Intelligent, Men, Thinking

  Interview With Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 13, 2003.

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• The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

  Saint Augustine

  Purpose, Gains, Merit

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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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• Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

  James Hillman

  Soul, Connections, Purpose

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• (The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more comprehensive: they project a concept of psychic order that embraces entire fields that we have no other way of seeing all together as the working of a single principle. If we think of the human domain as the collaboration and the conflict of these three diverse character-types, we can understand the weave and the stress and polemics of their very different basal teleologies or ultimate governing purposes of life.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Stress, Character

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• I'm so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There's no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven't found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I'm afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There's nothing to get up for.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Morning, Real, Trying

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• I'm so thankful that I have gotten the opportunity to fulfill my life purpose of staying inside on tumblr all day.

  Troye Sivan

  Opportunity, Purpose, Staying

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• The purpose of life is to get as close as we can to other people.

  John Verdon

  People, Purpose, Life Is

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• The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Beauty, Purpose, Life Is

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality”, Library of Alexandria

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• If you want to find your purpose in life, find your wound.

  Rick Warren

  Purpose, Want, Ifs

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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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