100 Quotes About Purpose In Life

Is it possible for you to see yourself as your purpose, like the way the world sees you? When you find what you're meant to do, it will take all of your energy and focus to make sure you don't waste it. If you want to make the most of what life gives you, read these quotes about purpose-in-life to see if they resonate with your own.

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It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters, Amit Ray
Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
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Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live. Criss Jami
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born...
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your purpose is your why.
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Your purpose is your why. Deborah Day
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with...
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Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying Germany Kent
Serving others is one of the bases for you to...
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Serving others is one of the bases for you to have or to enjoy a fullness of purpose in life. Sunday Adelaja
What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be...
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What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be a signpost to your purpose in life. Sunday Adelaja
The point at which things happen is a decision. In...
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The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else. Germany Kent
A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the...
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A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts. Amit Ray
Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so...
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Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment. Carlos Wallace
Without purpose, we're zombies aimlessly roaming the earth.
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Without purpose, we're zombies aimlessly roaming the earth. Ahmed Mostafa
Your purpose is your identity focus your energy on great...
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Your purpose is your identity focus your energy on great purposes. Amit Ray
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You haven’t realized it yet but your life is precious. I always say that people should not do something that has no purpose. Is there a purpose behind your actions? Of course there is a purpose behind your decision to step into this bamboo forest. That is why your life is not meaningless. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5) Melissa Rose Lawrence
Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you...
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Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God. It will be worth it. Germany Kent
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We must account for the life that we lived. A person inevitably will ask himself or herself on their deathbed, ‘what was the aim of my life, ’ ‘what did I accomplish, ’ ‘what did I not accomplish, ’ ‘what would I alter if I could live my life all over again’? What we discover on our deathbeds is that material luxuries afford no solace. We cannot purchase, possess, or legally acquire what is pure: love, beauty, truth, goodness, and imagination. Kilroy J. Oldster
It is always imagined before it is lived. In the...
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It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Amidst the whole peril in the world, here’s why you’re...
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Amidst the whole peril in the world, here’s why you’re still alive—to find your purpose. Your purpose will ignite hope in others. Chinonye J. Chidolue
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Without thoughtful effort and purposeful change, human life does not improve. The key to living a meaningful life is to accept reality. There is no inherent meaning to life just as there is no hidden meaning behind death. Life is limited and death is simply an ending. The only meaning to life is what each person passionately commits their life to accomplishing. Kilroy J. Oldster
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The highest goal of a leader is to help others fulfill their purposes in life. Debasish Mridha M.D.
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All his life he has been in the shadow of Grandfather, and of the man for whom he was named.".." Then, Grandfather would tell us it has nothing to do with fame.”“ He enjoyed the notoriety, though, ” said Dash.“Agreed, ” said Jimmy. “But he gained it from being so bloody brilliant at what he did. He didn’t set out to be the most fiendishly clever noble in history.”“ Maybe that’s what Father knew from the start; it’s just getting the job done and let history decide what history will decide, ” observed Dash. Raymond E. Feist
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In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose. Jana Elston
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You may be born thousands of years from today, but I really love and care about you. You are my kin and my reflection. Through my writings I want to change humanity for the better so that you can live and enjoy a better life. That is my purpose in life. Debasish Mridha
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One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work provides a person with a temporary purpose and an accompanying sense of security that there is a fitting place in this world for a person of their temperament and talent. Kilroy J. Oldster
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The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Be content with what you have. You have enough to live happy life. Lailah Gifty Akita
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You are part of divine purpose. You have a divine power within you. Lailah Gifty Akita
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As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example. Germany Kent
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I will finish what I have began. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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You can always create the life you want. Workhard to fulfill your dreams. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Find your Voice or risk fading out Bernard Kelvin Clive
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Seek first the kingdom of God and all other things will be added to you. Don't worry about the things. Seek Him first and watch Him work in you. Andrena Sawyer
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Your passion sustains you. Your purpose is why you were created. Follow your passion but ensure you fulfill your purpose. Kemi Sogunle
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You have all you need, to be all that you want. Lailah Gifty Akita
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The truest and noblest gift for yourself is personal development. Lailah Gifty Akita
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There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life. Germany Kent
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Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down. Germany Kent
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To be real is to be who you are according to the purpose which God wants you to accomplish but not to be who people want you to be according to what they think you should be. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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If you cannot ponder to wonder, you will always wonder to ponder Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony? And what art thou, thou idle ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? What are thy rents? what are thy comings in? O ceremony, show me but thy worth! What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree and form, Creating awe and fear in other men? Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd Than they in fearing. What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness, And bid thy ceremony give thee cure! Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation? Will it give place to flexure and low bending? Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee, Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream, That play'st so subtly with a king's repose; I am a king that find thee, and I know' Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread; Never sees horrid night, the child of hell, But, like a lackey, from the rise to set Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn, Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse, And follows so the ever-running year, With profitable labour, to his grave: And, but for ceremony, such a wretch, Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep, Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king. The slave, a member of the country's peace, Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace, Whose hours the peasant best advantages. William Shakespeare
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My desire in life, is to learn what I have to teach; to suck all the marrow of life, and pass it onto others. Efrat Cybulkiewicz
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If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it. Isaiah Hankel
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Comfort has been the very reason why so many people never lived their real and true destiny though they got to a certain comfortable destination! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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May you follow the path of light. Lailah Gifty Akita
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I am glad to be led by light. Lailah Gifty Akita
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This was her destiny, and it was a fit and proper one. She was not unwilling, but she knew this was a fateful moment, and she had a sense of doors closing behind her and the path of her life being fixed irrevocably. Ken Follett
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Not accomplishing your Life Plan is a tragic act of free will. It is akin to charting an elaborate vacation itinerary before arriving at your holiday destination, with all kinds of plans for outdoor adventures and intentions to go sightseeing and shopping, but then ending up spending the whole trip in your hotel room ordering from room service and watching television. In a similar fashion the unconscious soul spends a lifetime in the semi-conscious state of Divine Disconnection and then returns home mostly ‘empty-handed’. Anthon St. Maarten
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I am fulfilling my destiny. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Throughout the ancient world, naming was a sacred act. It was the word by which a child was called into his calling. It was the voice of destiny, summoning the child into his future with all its glorious promise. Unknown
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The epiphany in this thought is that we simply cannot and do not create in isolation. As I paint my blank canvas others leave their mark on my masterpiece. Many have added colors and textures I knew not existed, greatly improving my creation.and yet..and yet.. There are those who have punctured the fine leather and scraped at the rainbows of my mind .. creating stormy patches where there were once colors beaming from the page. Bella Vespira
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IThe epiphany in this thought is that we simply cannot and do not create in isolation. As I paint my blank canvas others leave their mark on my masterpiece. Many have added colors and textures I knew not existed, greatly improving my creation.and yet..and yet.. There are those who have punctured the fine leather and scraped at the rainbows of my mind .. creating stormy patches where there were once colors beaming from the page. Bella Vespira
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Work for what you want, the pursuit of life. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Success is accomplishment of daily work. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Don't try to preserve your energy. Rather, think of a worthwhile purpose in life and burn yourself up.... for that's what is satisfying and fulfilling. Manoj Arora
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You can get what you want in life. You must reach out with all your heart. Lailah Gifty Akita
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There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined, ” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived. T. Scott McLeod
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May God guide you along the best pathway for your life. Lailah Gifty Akita
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May the Spirit of God empower you with divine strength to accomplish your mission on earth. Lailah Gifty Akita
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I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading? Dean Bokhari
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Our job on earth isn't to criticize, reject, or judge. Our purpose is to offer a helping hand, compassion, and mercy. We are to do unto others as we hope they would do unto us. Dana Arcuri
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Replace the word can’t with can. Know that you can, believe that you can, and know will ALL of your heart that you will. You will succeed in spite of any obstacles that may try to hinder you! There’s so much power in having a positive attitude, positive mindset, and positive outlook. Stephanie Lahart
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I feel the reason we are all here, our purpose of being, is to help others find their little piece of happiness and heaven right here on earth. Ken Poirot
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Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it Isaiah Hankel
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You have to pursue your dreams with all your heart. Lailah Gifty Akita
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When the time comes for the fulfillment of the visions, all resources needed are made available by divine power. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Surviving is good, but overcoming is better. Shelley Hendrix
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A person’s attitude creates the tone of his or her life. The highest expression of human dignity is to live a purposeful life devoted to principles and exhibiting compassion for other people. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Every life has a divine purpose and that is to be happy. Debasish Mridha
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We cannot measure a person’s value to the human race by tabulating the size of his estate. We must judge each person by his or her final contribution to humanity and nature. Kilroy J. Oldster
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The only manner to blunt in a wholesome and righteous manner the emotional trauma of living under a death sentence is by making every day count, living passionately, and dedicating the journey stumbling through time to accomplishing a master life plan. We can assist each other find meaning in life and undertake a path that make every person’s life a worthy endeavor, but each person bears the personal responsibility for living their life, establishing who they are, and behaving in a manner that provides credence to their self-imposed ideology. If a person persists in shifting personal responsibility for their way of life onto someone else, they he or she fails to discover the meaning of his own existence. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Today is all you have. Pursue your goals. Lailah Gifty Akita
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The only way to get to where you want to go is to ruthlessly evaluate your where you are now. The key here is that your biggest obstacle in life is always yourself–not external factors. Isaiah Hankel
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I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards. Fennel Hudson
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But beware of this about callings: they may not lead us where we intended to go or even where we want to go. If we choose to follow, we may have to be willing to let go of the life we already planned and accept whatever is waiting for us. And if the calling is true, though we may not have gone where we intended, we will surely end up where we need to be. Steve Goodier
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You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling. Lailah Gifty Akita
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A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character. Kilroy J. Oldster
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The great mission of our day is not conquering the sea or space, disease or tyranny. The grand quest which calls to the hero in every one of us is to become fully alive--to stand up and claim our birthright, which is inner freedom, love and radiant purpose. By fulfilling this, we transform the world. Jacob Nordby
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Our ultimate devotion is to be a reflection of a divine work that is continuously unfolding in our hearts. Andrena Sawyer
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There is no pre-mapped intellectual topology path leading to truth. Truth is a process of conducting a searching investigatory dialogue with oneself in an attempt to examine and discern the contents of a person’s own mind. Every person must ask himself or herself what is essential in life. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Notwithstanding how good a seed my be, it's proper germination, growth and fruit bearing may be mutilated if not planted in a good soil Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked? John Gardner
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The promise of a hopeful future is motivation for the pursuit of my dreams. Lailah Gifty Akita
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You must nurture the force within you. You are the only person that can behold the divine force for your divine purpose. Lailah Gifty Akita
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All people intuitively seek emotional equanimity, freedom from anxiety, distress, and trepidation that might cause a person to lose symmetrical balance of their mind. Nature intended for human beings to live in an enthusiastic and curious manner, always exploring, striving, and creating. Kilroy J. Oldster
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From the moment that man believes neither in God nor in immortal life, he becomes 'responsible for everything alive, for everything that, born of suffering, is condemned to suffer from life.' It is he, and he alone, who must discover law and order. Then the time of exile begins, the endless search for justification, the aimless nostalgia, 'the most painful, the most heartbreaking question, that of the heart which asks itself: where can I feel at home? . Albert Camus
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We cradle in our nucleus emotional ingots gathered through studied immersion of the incongruities of life. In an elusive quest to disinter meaning out of life, we must cull joy from our daily rituals while conscientiously striving to nourish the nucleus of our buried innate essence. By discovering inner peace blossoming amongst the rubble of daily life, while determinedly searching out the cytoplasm our innate essence, a person’s reveals their inspirational tranquility. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Clearly state your goal, passionately pursue it. Lailah Gifty Akita
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We, animal and human, come to this time and space to have an experience embedded with our own divine purpose. Amy Miller
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I am giving my best in the pursuit of my most cherished dreams. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance. T.d. Jakes
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A principled life begins by accepting the evident truth that we must die. Death becomes us. Knowledge of the impermanence of our existence reassures us that how we live does make a difference. Because our allotted time for living is finite, we must make the most of each day. Kilroy J. Oldster
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We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled".~ R. Alan Woods [2012] R. Alan Woods
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People have their purposes and reasons, I just wish I found mine. Anthony Liccione
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There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble. Sam Keen
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In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil. Aldous Huxley
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To reclaim our natural power and this birthright of real magic, we must get naked and face ourselves. The truth of Who You Really Are is vast. It is genius. It crackles with electricity and sensuality and other forbidden, dangerous things. You have longed for it all your life. You catch glimpses of it from the corner of your eye. A riff of music reminds you, a surge of ecstasy during sex brings you home, a crisp Autumn wind carries some long forgotten scent which thrills you for inexplicable reasons. A thousand tiny hints show up to seduce you awake and lead you back into your true nature, but they flee when you try to grasp them and leave you wondering if you were just imagining things. You weren’t though. This quality of richness and balance and home is Who You Really Are. That is the kingdom we seek and it waits for us to find it. It wants us to regain our rightful place. Jacob Nordby