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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
-Norman Cousins
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
-Norman Cousins
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
-William Cowper
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
-William Cowper
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
-Barbara De Angelis
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No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, ?This is what is expected of you. But I?m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role I love being with people.?
-Princess of Wales Diana
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I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
-Wayne Dyer
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
-George Eliot
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
-George Eliot
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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
-Henry Fielding
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
-Sam Walter Foss
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
-Victor Frankl
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
-Erich Fromm
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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
-Thomas Fuller
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
-Andre Gide
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
-Johann von Goethe
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
-Johann von Goethe
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
-Johann von Goethe
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Books about Purpose
