Purpose Quotes - Page 36

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

As a radio personality, I'm a public servant, we all should be public servants in some way shape or form. I feel like my soul purpose is to be of service to others.

What is the use of a new-born child ?

The self is made, not given

The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.

Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.

Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.

God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.

Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.