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• Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

  Denis Waitley

  People, Winner, Definite

  Denis Waitley (1996). “Psychology of Success: Developing Your Self-esteem”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Natural Talent, Want, Mankind

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• Direction, not intention determines your destination.

  Andy Stanley

  Inspirational, Attitude, Goal

  Twitter post from Jun 29, 2012

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• Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.

  Michael Beckwith

  Self, Mystery, Individual

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• The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Dust, Soul

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.

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• The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Happy Life, Keys, Accomplishment

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.26, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Death, Knowledge, Science

  "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Men, Sorrow

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• I will keep my body charged with energy for fulfillment of my purpose, in accord with that which is commanded of me.

  Walter Russell

  Secret, Energy, Body

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• You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.

  Walter Russell

  Secret, Together, Energy

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• Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

  Will Smith

  Motivational, Ghouls, Each Day

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• The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Personality, Roles

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• Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Political, Doe

  c.330 BC Politics, bk.1, ch.2,1253b (translated by T A Sinclair).

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• I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

  Robert Henri

  Alive, Privilege, Paint

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• Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Passion, Done, Isms

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• It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Realizing, Hard

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Partying for the Planet and Dancing With God (at Burning Man)" by Leah Lamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Believe, Contentment

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• The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Relationship, Thinking

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.120, Penguin

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• Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 1 (1963)

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• The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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