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To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.
I believe that we're all here for a purpose and that one of my biggest ones is to help people understand that they're beautiful.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.
Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.
I don't want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It's a life with a purpose.
Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.
Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.
No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.
The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.
Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.
Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.
I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.
Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.
Preventing people from illegally immigrating to the United States should be the primary purpose of Customs and Border Protection.
The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.
An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.
War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?
If we can take the time to mute the noise we've build around ourselves the rhythm of the heartbeats and the purpose may be clear.
The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want.
The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
Glogg is a Scandinavian mulled wine, sweetened with honey, almonds, raisins and spices. Its name suits its purpose so beautifully.
I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.
The fulfilling of who you are and your purpose for being here is not found outside, it's trusting God to move you, to inspire you.
Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.
I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
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.
There has never been and never will be another you. You have a purpose - a very special gift that only you can bring to the world.
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.
Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.
I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone
In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.
The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.
I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.