Purpose Quotes
5907 quotes by 3305 authors
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A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.
— Edgar Cayce
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Heartache is good. Accept it joyously. Allow it, don't repress it. The natural tendency of the mind is to repress anything that is painful. By…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about…
— J I Packer
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It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the…
— Samuel Smiles
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There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter,…
— Gardner C. Taylor
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I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the…
— Albert Einstein
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Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
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The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for…
— Don Kates
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It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or…
— Louis Sullivan
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When we learn to eat properly we begin to rebuild our bodies and to fulfill our purpose on this planet to grow in health, creativity,…
— Ann Wigmore
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All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art.…
— Corinne Heline
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At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres becomes to us…
— Corinne Heline
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I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got…
— George Carlin
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The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
— Ken Calvert
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing…
— John W. Gardner
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To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead…
— Billy Graham
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