"The purpose of our life is to help…" — Peter Matthiessen
"The purpose of our life is to help others through it."
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35 Quotes by Peter Matthiessen
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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of…
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Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had…
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Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.
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I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow.…
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This world is painted on a wild dark metal
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There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before…
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My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
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Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when…
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The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension,…
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I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black…
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Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure…
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time,…
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the…
— Victoria Abril
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Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because…
— Robert Asprin
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help…
— Rodney Atkins
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
— Teresa of Avila
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
— Teresa of Avila
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious…
— Sai Baba
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