Purpose Of Life Quotes - Page 8

• As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Breathing, Long, Tasks

  Karen Kingsbury (2013). “The Chance”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

  Rick Yancey

  Giving, Up To You, Purpose

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.160, Penguin

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• We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Positive, Hope, Attitude

  The Atlantic Community Quarterly, Volume 14-15, p. 200, 1976-1978.

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• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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• People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

  Stedman Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Stedman Graham (1998). “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.

  Jane Jacobs

  Men, America, Erosion

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.370, Vintage

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• Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Thinking, People, Wish

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.90, Faber & Faber

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

  Alexander the Great

  Leaving, Risk, Lovely

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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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• 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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• Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Life, Motivational, Goal

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• The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it.

  Alan Cohen

  Powerful, Prayer, Home

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• The Body thinks it has an agenda that is important. And the Mind imagines that its agenda is vital to your survival. But the older you get the more you realize that it is the Soul's agenda, and only the Soul's agenda, that matters.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Soul, Survival

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jun 06, 2015

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• There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Umpires, Judging

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• It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come...he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Looks

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• Every second counts. We are only on this earth for a short amount of time, and we get to decide how we want to use that time. And if one thinks that the purpose of life is to leave the world in just a little bit better place than we found it, it's hard to think of anyone who has contributed more than Jane Goodall.

  Brett Morgen

  Thinking, Purpose, World

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• What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Happy Life, Purpose

  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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• The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Self, Vision

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.104, Penguin

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• Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? Those who seek the folly of unrelieved 'happiness'-who fear moods, who shun solitude, who do not know the diginity of occasional depression-can find bliss easily enough: in tranquilizing pills, or in senility. The purpose of life is not to be happy.

  Leo Rosten

  Pain, Solitude, Meaning Of Life

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• In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.

  Philip French

  Life, Death, Suicide

  "Feathered frenzy" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2005.

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