True Purpose Quotes
41 quotes by 37 authors
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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
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It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of…
— Vaclav Havel
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It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this…
— Clarence Clemons
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A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold…
— Eric Butterworth
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Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and…
— Georges St-Pierre
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At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At…
— Kelley Armstrong
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As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and…
— Annie Ernaux
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It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success†and “failure†had suddenly lost their…
— Paul Auster
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The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the…
— David O. McKay
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The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they…
— Christian D. Larson
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The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.
— Deepak Chopra
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The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this…
— Anne Sullivan
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They say they brought you into this world, and they can take you out!...hmm..but they're not what's keeping you here. So what is? Answer that…
— Kristiana Evans
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The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Ever wonder about the true purpose of mosquitoes? I'm thinking it must be God's source of amusement... watching us slap ourselves!
— Green Monk
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The true purpose of education is to teach you to do the thing that needs to be done,when it needs to be done, whether you…
— Thomas Huxley
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Its better for one tp be dead and not know life than for one to knw life and not know the true essence of it…
— Justice Ogali
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