"I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed that goal of enlightenment exists, I have had to search. It is the search itself which has been choking me and keeping me out of my natural state. There is no such thing as spiritual or psychological enlightenment because there is no such thing as spirit or psyche at all. I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end."
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"The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, 'Well done, thy good and faithful servant,' is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!"
"As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content."
"Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties."
"Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them."
"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance."
"Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity."
"The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better"
"The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin."
"When we come to Christ, we’re no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus."
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."
"You are here to step into the shoes of UN ambassadors - to draft resolutions, to plot strategy, to negotiate with your allies as well as your adversaries. Your goal may be to resolve a conflict, to cope with a natural disaster or to bring nations together on an issue like climate change. You may be playing a role, but you are also preparing for life. You are acting as global citizens."
"The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy."
"When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed."
"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."
"Whatever good things we build end up building us."
"I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family."
"I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me."
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."
"One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious."