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• It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

  Hermann Hesse

  Motivational, Respect, Honor

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

  Sophia Loren

  Love, Fashion, Women

  "Good Morning, America" on ABC TV, en.wikiquote.org. August 10, 1979.

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• And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Religious, Fear

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.261, Library of America

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• To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

  Alan Coren

  Life, Purpose Of Life, Grievance

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• Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

  Al Sharpton

  Age, Dies, Old Age

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• A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

  Thornton Wilder

  Providence, Eternal, Conditions

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• Art is purposiveness without purpose.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Art Is

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• An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.

  Neville Goddard

  Imagination, Undesirable, Awakened

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• One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

  Peter Schmidt

  Art, Reality, Style

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• The purpose of life is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Life Is, Purpose Of Life

  The Dalai Lama (1997). “Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.50, Shambhala

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• The purpose of life is to live it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life Is, Purpose Of Life

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• I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

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• My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.

  Derek Landy

  Sports, Talking, Names

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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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• How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service.

  Walter Russell

  Wise, Inspiration, Humility

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• The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Realizing, Free Will

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• Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.

  Russell Simmons

  Giving, Soul, Buckets

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.85, Penguin

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• There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Success, Strong, Character

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• They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their thoughts and actions everything which subtracts from their purposes.

  Walter Russell

  Order, Secret, Energy

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• In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Technique, Foundation

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.163, Mango Media Inc.

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• Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Science, Journey

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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

  Dale Carnegie

  Saws, Heard, Feels

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Principles, Use, Compromise

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

  Pablo Picasso

  Feelings, Vision, Green

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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