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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!
When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.
Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.
The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose
Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, - there is no one else who will.
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.
The heart of blogging is linking - linking and commenting. Connecting and communicating - the purpose of the Internet.
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.
The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
Everyone has a life purpose, and the key to your life purpose is following your passion, which consumes a lot of time.
Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.
Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.
he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.
Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.
The strongest tool we, as Americans, have is our ability to rally together and to find solutions with unity of purpose.
To separate the purpose of a business from the purpose of people who are in the business is, I think, not a good thing.
...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?
Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.
That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.
Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.
An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.
Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.
Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion.
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.
You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.
There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.
I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?
Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.