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• Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

  Tony Dungy

  Legacy, Patterns, Life Is

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Life is eternal; death only punctuates it for a short while. After a little break life starts again. Death is ultimate truth; life is truth beyond ultimate. Life is never destroyed; it just keeps on changing shapes. Endless processes are attached with this life; many stages are there in this grand journey of life. From an insect to an enlightened soul it keeps on changing. Creation is always beautiful in the beginning. It can be beautiful all the time also. What is purpose of life? It's evolution to higher levels

  Mahesh Babu

  Life, Beautiful, Journey

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• So the question is not: Why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? With awareness or lack of awareness? As the cause of my experience, or at the effect of it?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1996.

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• Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don't like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.145, Penguin

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• If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation-an opportunity for growth, for full Self expression, for lifting your lives to their highest potential, for healing every false thought or small idea you ever had about you, and for ultimate reunion with God through the communion of your two souls-if you take that vow instead of the vows you've been taking-the relationship has begun on a very good note.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.112, Penguin

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• Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.41, Penguin

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• Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Life, Heaven, Covering

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• But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Father, Grateful

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• Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Life, Wise, Business

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• A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Life, Blow, Wind

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• Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Spiritual, Men

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• The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory.

  Edgar S. Brightman

  Life, Spiritual, Struggle

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• The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means "the world order of a particular place." The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community - the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Life, Mean, Animal

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• The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Work, States

  "The Divine Comedy".

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• SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Ocean, Musical

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.215, University of Georgia Press

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• At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Moments, Given

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• To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples.

  John B. Conway

  Example, Mathematics, Mathematical

  John B. Conway (1981). “Subnormal Operators”, Pitman Advanced Publishing Program

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• But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and listen to him, not continually bawl words into his ears as if pouring water into a funnel. Good teaching will come from a mind well made rather than well filled.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teacher, Teaching, Water

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• The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

  James A. Baldwin

  Education, Decision, Looks

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• The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

  Ayn Rand

  Education, Home, School

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.154, Penguin

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• One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code.

  Cay S. Horstmann

  Learning, Design, Tears

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• We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Art, Learning, Simple

  "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.

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• It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.

  Ardeth Kapp

  Children, Giving Up, Perfect

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• The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Good Life, Sadness, Psychology

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• Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.

  Pal Benko

  Player, Psychology, Needs

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