"God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives."
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"I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it."
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"Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time."
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"The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed."
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"It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy too."
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"A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road."
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"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began."
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"The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it."
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"A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit."
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"Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start."
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"Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure."
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"Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose."
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"To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living."
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"It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends."
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"Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all."
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"When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose."
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"Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment."
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"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
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"A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments."
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"Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes."
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