Purpose Of Life Quotes - Page 18

• Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

  John Stuart Mill

  Purpose, Chance, Ends

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our only purpose in life is growth.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Growth, Purpose, Life Is

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• There are days when I am envious of my hens:
  when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
  as a single daily egg.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Eggs, Perfect

  Barbara Kingsolver, “Apotheosis”

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• A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves or storms, or with the whim of the captain. They are tempted to ask, amidst the battles of life, "Is the struggle worth-while?" That attitude lessens the joy of living. They who say that there is no purpose in life are not unhappy, but become dangerous to themselves and others, for they have no safe guide for their actions. Indeed, life has not objective save physical satisfactions, it is empty and valueless.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Attitude, Struggle, Sea

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• For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Purpose, Might

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.199

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• Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Men, Weakness, Purpose

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Joyzelle (English Edition)”, p.22, Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.

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• The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Purpose

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  People, Building Things, Purpose

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• One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

  Steve Southerland

  Numbers, People, Purpose

  "Food Stamps At The Heart Of Farm Bill Political Drama". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 29, 2013.

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• What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Sweet, Flower

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• When we have no goal, or when our vision of the goal is obscured, we may lose our sense of purpose. Even when we've prepared ourselves well and have an aptitude for a given activity, poorly directed efforts can rob us of vital energy. We can spend a great deal of our time, money, and other resources running around in circles. Unless we create specific goals that match our purpose in life and unless we keep a clear vision of these goals, we may eventually falter and fail.

  John Templeton

  Running, Circles, Goal

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• Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Two, Work Out, Purpose

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.46, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Whenever I mentor people and help them discover their purpose, I always encourage them to start the process by discovering their strengths, not exploring their shortcomings. Why? Because people's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You are not called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strength zone.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Over You, Mentor

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed to make programming not only easy but also fun. It allows you to concentrate on the creative side of programming, with less stress.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Fun, Stress, Believe

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• Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are recorded in biography. Even the humblest person, who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country; for his life and character pass unconsciously into the lives of others, and propagate good example for all time to come.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Honesty, Character

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.19

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• We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Giving, Family And Friends, Purpose

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• The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Men, Purpose

  "Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology". Book by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, 1929.

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• Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

  Tony Blair

  Hate, Real, People

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• If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  God, Believe, Purpose

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• There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe
  in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory,
  write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose
  and gold will be smelt from your terror.

  Geoff Thompson

  Believe, Writing, Warrior

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• Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.

  Criss Jami

  Train Of Thought, People, Feelings

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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• The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor's joy and sustenance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Believe, Eye, Giving

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• You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Real, Work, Mean

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• Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world of birds a symposium on the purpose of life would be inconceivable. They do not need it. We are not that self-reliant. We are the ones who have lost our way.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Nature, Self, Bird

  Brooks Atkinson, American Museum of Natural History (1972). “This bright land: a personal view”

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• The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.

  Kate Bush

  Sex, Good Life, Thinking

  Song: Symphony In Blue, Album: Lionheart, 1978

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