Purpose Quotes - Page 104

In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.

The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.

Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

There's never going to be a time where the Republican Party rallies around and says you have to get out or anyone has to get out for purposes of rallying around Donald Trump.

The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement.

I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.

The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.