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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Related topics: Values Purpose
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
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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
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
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.
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 not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
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
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
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
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
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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.
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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- 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
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
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
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
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
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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