"Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take."
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"When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb."
"Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated."
"Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals clearly in sight."
"You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life."
"We want lifelong good health and an end to fearing the aging process. By combining the fruits of modern neuroscience and timeless wisdom, you can achieve those goals. That is what your brain is designed for. The key is realizing that you are the user of your brain."
"I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery."
"Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
"I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal."
"You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals."
"I like guys who are cool and laid-back.Someone who works really hard and has goals but who I can be silly with. Looks are not important to me."
"Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?"
"Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success."
"The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience."
"As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see."
"Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective."
"Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture."
"A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving."
"...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity."
"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal."