Purpose Of Life Quotes - Page 14

• Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

  Mark Batterson

  Purpose, Quitting, Life Is

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2014

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• Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal.

  Bob Proctor

  Real, Goal, Purpose

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• Jesus didn’t die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It’s storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It’s a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn’t radical. It’s normal. It’s time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It’s time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!

  Mark Batterson

  Jesus, Coffins, Purpose

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• Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

  Rick Warren

  Events, Purpose, Life Is

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Lying, Greatness, Men

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• We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking and doing are different things.

  Mac Anderson

  Differences, Different, Purpose

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• If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Life, Joy, Finding Happiness

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• My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

  James Dean

  Purpose, Doe, Charm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Evil, Purpose, Communism

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.

  Hans Selye

  Men, Goal, Healthy

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Real, Dark

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• The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
  Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
  So always strive for that.
  Set your life around that goal.
  Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Goal, Enlightenment, Purpose

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• Those who choose love - daring to feel to the depths of being, accepting responsibility for their actions, and seeking a purpose in life - will find that the world of significant living will unfold its cleverly concealed presence.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Responsibility, Depth, Purpose

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.100, New World Library

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• Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Giving, Important

  Evelyn Waugh's review of Stephen Spender "World within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender" in "The Tablet", May 5, 1951.

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• When we sit thoughtfully pondering in a quiet place and the Spirit speaks to us, there will come into our hearts and souls the things that are truly our greatest desires, those things that are more important in the long run than anything else. Away from the appeal of the world, that greatest desire usually relates to relationships with family and with the Lord. And when that priority is in place, then we begin to plan our lives with purpose. We begin to have goals that cause us to live with anticipation.

  Ardeth Kapp

  Running, Heart, Long

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• At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Cutting, Rivers, Tree

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• We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Simplicity, Fellow Man

  Yutang Lin (1962). “The pleasures of a nonconformist”

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• The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the details of all subjects (if such a thing were possible): the “whole man” in fact, may have little detailed knowledge of facts and theories...but he will be truly in touch with the centre. He will not be in doubt about his basic convictions, about his view on the meaning and purpose of his life. He may not be able to explain these matters in words, but the conduct of his life will show a certain sureness of touch which stems from this inner clarity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Views, Doubt

  "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.

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• He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Real, Purpose, Life Is

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

  Warren Buffett

  Love You, People, Purpose

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• What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.

  Sigmund Freud

  Doubt, Principles, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Living is the purpose of life,
  And meaning can be found therein.
  I finds thou.
  Thou becomes it.
  And it begins again.

  Ken Kesey

  Purpose, Found, Begin Again

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• If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, School, Warrior

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• The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Giving, Purpose

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.284, Paradise Publishing

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• I think the biggest single improvement, or change, that a person could make in one's life would be to come to a deeper understanding, a more expanded awareness of who they are, of who God is, of what God wants, of what life is really about, of the purpose of life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Thinking, Understanding

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