Purpose Of Life Quotes - Page 12

• If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

  Zhuangzi

  Acceptance, Trying, Purpose

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• It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Children, Loneliness, Needs

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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? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

  Leo Rosten

  Pain, Differences, Purpose

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• The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

  Deepak Chopra (1985). “Creating health: the psychophysiological connection”

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• I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.

  Shay Mitchell

  Girl, Strong, Men

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• However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Voice, Judging

  "The Will to Power".

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• Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

  Dan Millman

  Change, Courage, Energy

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.81, H J Kramer

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• The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

  Cyril Connolly

  Food, Loss, Purpose

  The Unquiet Grave Pt I

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• To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Relationship, Mother

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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• To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Ambition, Desire, Purpose

  Cynthia Ozick (2006). “The Din in the Head”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

  H. E Davey

  Strong, Powerful, Yoga

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Ambition

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.46, Princeton University Press

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• Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead.

  Roderick E. Stevens

  Should Have, Goal, Effort

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• Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Men, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

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• If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

  Mitsugi Saotome

  Change, Encouragement, Inspirational Love

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• Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

  Julian Barnes

  Loss, Thinking, Long

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.105, Random House

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• We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Giving, Suffering

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Thinking, Blood

  Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “The Science of Getting Rich, Great And Well (Annotated Edition)”, p.91, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

  Sivananda

  Life, Purpose, Realization

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• Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Purpose, Dressing Well

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• Life without meaning
  cannot be borne.
  We find a mission
  to which we're sworn
  -or answer the call
  of Death's dark horn.
  Without a gleaning
  of purpose in life,
  we have no vision,
  we live in strife,
  -or let blood fall
  on a suicide knife.

  Dean Koontz

  Suicide, Fall, Suicidal

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• Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

  Guillermo Maldonado

  Life, Happy, Loneliness

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• The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful English word-grateful. If one is great and full, one is God. And whenever smallness faces you, you should be great, and full-full of that greatness.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Grateful

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• The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Art, Men

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