The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“If you can take ten thousand hours and divide it by the number of hours, you can concentrate and devote to repeatedly… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
“... meaning where meaning is genuinely to be found — in families, in friends, in the passage of seasons, in nature, in… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“We humans appear to be meaning-seeking creatures who have had the misfortune of being thrown into a world devoid of intrinsic meaning.… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
There are three forces--of the body, mind and feeling. Unless these are together, equally developed and harmonized, a steady connection cannot be… — Jeanne de Salzmann Copy Share Image
You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration,… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
... shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was… — Sam Andrew Copy Share Image
Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best… — Guillermo Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose.… — Don King Copy Share Image
I grew up dancing, I grew up competing in dance, being on television, and I pursued dance for my own self-reflection and… — Valentin Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are five main purposes of central bank cooperation"..."the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold… — William Smith White Copy Share Image
Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“The management theorist Tom Peters said, "Purpose rarely comes from sitting down and contemplating purpose. Mostly, surely in my case, one accidentally… — Michael D. Watkins Copy Share Image
When you suppress your true feelings or follow a path that isn’t really yours, you aren’t living your authentic self. Your soul… — Deborah King Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“The goal of human life," says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look… — Stephen Cope Copy Share Image
[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“To be more precise... death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
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![“[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was…” quote by Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/23e/viktor-e-frankl-668_aim_speaking-of-his-experience-in-a-concentr_2217219.jpg)
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