Purpose Of Life Quotes - Page 9

• The problem facing humanity today is not a political problem; it's not a financial problem; it's not a military problem. It's obviously a spiritual problem. That is, it has to do with what we believe to be true about who we are, where we are, why we are where we are, and what are we doing on the Earth. What is the purpose of life itself? What we need right now are leaders or models, people who will stand up and not only help to write a cultural story, but help to model it in the way that they interact with each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Military, Believe

  Source: www.kabbalah.info

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• If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.

  Max Lucado

  Pain, Perspective, People

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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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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• I literally wrote a book on it called Your Roadmap For Success. And in it I said success is three things: knowing my purpose in life, I think it's impossible for anybody to be successful until they really discover why they're here on earth and what God has planned for them; secondly, growing to my maximum potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Book, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

  Alan Cohen

  Spiritual, Suggestions, Purpose

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• The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

  Christina Baldwin

  Soul, Comfort, Purpose

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “The Seven Whispers: A Spiritual Practice for Times Like These”, p.47, New World Library

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• The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

  George Harrison

  Purpose, Life Is

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• What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Eye, Purpose, Ears

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Life Changing

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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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• The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.

  Michael Crichton

  Philosophy, Animal, Reality

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Congo”, p.166, Vintage

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• Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Purpose, Life Is, Grows

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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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• The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

  Christopher Paolini

  Needs, Purpose, Done

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• The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

  Robert Kennedy

  Purpose, Way, Life Is

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• Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Father, Intelligent

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.144, Faber & Faber

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• It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Order, People

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• It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

  Jon Campbell

  Purpose, Arguing, Argument

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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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• My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Purpose, Life Is, Glorify

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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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• 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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• 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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• The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Purpose, Knowledge Of God

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