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I see no business in life but the work of Christ.
-Henry Martyn
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Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.
-Charles Mayes
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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
-Margaret Mead
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
-Michel de Montaigne
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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
-Michel de Montaigne
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Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.
-Dwight L. Moody
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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
-Arthur E. Morgan
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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
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You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.
-Barry Munro
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.
-Mary O'Connor
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
-Thomas Paine
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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
-Charles H. Parkhurst
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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
-Patanjali
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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
-Pablo Picasso
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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
-Peace Pilgrim
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The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
-Plutarch
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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
-Adam Clayton Powell
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Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.
-James Redfield
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Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
-Anthony Robbins
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It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
-Nelson Rockefeller
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
-Ida P. Rolf
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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.
-Abu Sa'id
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Books about Purpose
