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Purpose-of-life Quotes

... To be in time means to change.

But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Gh...

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The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we...

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Chris HedgesWar Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: ...

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Douglas CouplandPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...

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If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not...

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Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be h...

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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

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Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would...

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At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Othe...

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The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no oth...

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Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds ...

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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in ...

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For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks u...

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But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a...

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The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I ...

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

They say, find a purpose in life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that y...

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.

I keep finding myself confronted with the question, “What is the aim of man’s life?” and, no matter ...

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Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth...

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Why stay we on earth except to grow?

In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all ...

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You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then s...

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I did not know what I was going to do with my life; before anything else I wanted to find an answer,...

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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...

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It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry ab...

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The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the huma...

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to...

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You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which de...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting i...

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Robert S. MullikenLife of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory

The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received...

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You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about...

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And in that moment I experience a revelation.I realize now that it was a painful sense that the worl...

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Umberto EcoThe Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful functio...

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Don't you feel that at this rate there isn't much in it? In what? In living at all, going on as we d...

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‎"If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we aw...

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

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Albert EinsteinOut of My Later Years: The Scientist

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

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Albert EinsteinOut of My Later Years: The Scientist

The purpose of life is to emit positive vibrations in every direction in every way.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Give time, give space to sprout your potential. Awaken the beauty of your heart – the beauty of your...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!