Purposeful Quotes

124 quotes by 106 authors

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. — Wayne Dyer
Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make… — Tom Hodgkinson
Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they… — Simon Mainwaring
Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such… — Simon Mainwaring
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. — Potter Stewart
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is… — Thomas Merton
I had all the characteristics of a human beingâ€”flesh, blood, skin, hairâ€”but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability… — Bret Easton Ellis
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a… — Brigham Young
The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting… — Barack Obama
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? — Bernhard Schlink
Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious.… — Francine Pascal
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the… — John Cage
No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like… — Tony Hoagland
When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you… — Gary Zukav
I mean itâ€™s purposeful, even if we donâ€™t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave… — Deb Caletti
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it. — Charlaine Harris
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance;… — Algernon Blackwood
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless… — Alan Watts
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes. — Abdul Kalam

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