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Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Related topics: Wisdom
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes
Is the system going to flatten you out
and deny you your humanity,
or are you going to be able to make use of the system
to the attainment of human purposes?
- Joseph Campbell
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
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