Move forward with purpose
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Anything that's motivated from fear will ultimately take you down the wrong road and lead you in a cul de sac, anything motivated from purpose, from joy, and from love will take you on an evolutionary path to greater and greater happiness.
Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?
The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.
You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. . . . As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before. This is the purpose to which we are being summoned to harness our world-body!. . . Heroic responses in ideals and in conduct are a choice of regal dignity in the presence of a new earth and Heaven.
With the right information at our fingertips, we can always make better decisions. That is one of the reasons I'm working with Tom's of Maine, in particular. For decades they've provided information about ingredients, their purpose and source.
I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Have I today done anything to fulfill the purpose for which Thou didst cause me to be born?
No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls. '
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.
Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.