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• The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Real, Joy

  Twitter post from Mar 01, 2016

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• Discovery of purpose is a continuous activity, and revelation of it is an ongoing process... The most fortunate people on earth are those who have found a calling that is bigger than they are, a reason for living that moves them and fills their lives with constant passion, aliveness, and growth. Your soul's true purpose is to be the love that you are!

  Glenda Green

  Moving, Passion, Discovery

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• When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parents, and explains why childrens books are a very hot and lucrative industry. Instead of telling your child the truth of our history and existence, you are conditioned by society to simply read your kid a fairytale.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Book, Kids

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• Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

  Alan Cohen

  Joy, Purpose, May

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• Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Purpose, Enterprise, Customers

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• The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

  Theodore Levitt

  Purpose, Customers

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• The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

  Christian D. Larson

  Strong, Purpose, Mercy

  Christian D. Larson (2007). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.

  Vaclav Havel

  Goal, Understanding, Purpose

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• It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

  Clarence Clemons

  Important, Purpose, Matter

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• The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Purpose, Lost

  Deepak Chopra, M.D. (2012). “AARP The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga: A Practical Guide to Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons

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• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

  David O. McKay

  Religious, Stars, Kindness

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• It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Drinking, Water, Doubt

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• Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.

  Annie Ernaux

  Writing, People, Purpose

  Annie Ernaux (2011). “Happening”, p.92, Seven Stories Press

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• As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose - that it may violate property instead of protecting it - then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Long, Use

  "La Loi (The Law)". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I’d thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she’d shown. Soon, though, I’d figured out the animals’ true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Baby, Teacher, Zoos

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Men of the Otherworld”, p.124, Vintage Canada

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• The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Education, Teaching, Sunset

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• We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

  Chris Hedges

  Education, Mistake, Thinking

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• The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Mind, Purpose

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

  David O. McKay

  Inspiration, Individual Effort, Perfection

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• For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Art, Struggle

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

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• Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Compassion, Self, Joy

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• Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has been with the desire that man-in whom geological history had its consummation, the prophecies of the successive ages their fulfilment-might better comprehend his own nobility and the true purpose of his existence.

  James Dwight Dana

  Science, Men, History

  James Dwight Dana (1869). “Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special Reference to American Geological History, for the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools of Science”, p.9

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• More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the beginning of another way of looking at the world is to re-evaluate all of our beliefs. It is, after all, our beliefs that determine what we are, experience, and expect. When we are willing to take a new look at our own beliefs, we then have an opportunity to begin rediscovering who and what we are and to redetermine our true purpose on Earth.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Ignorance, Thinking, Opportunity

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• I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

  Marlo Morgan

  Purpose, Difficult, Exploring

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Real, Thinking

  "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, October 30, 2009.

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