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"It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later."
"God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and then do it for all we're worth for the rest of our lives. Ask God to show you your purpose. He will answer."
"Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself."
"Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose."
"Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose."
"Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation."
"Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power."
"Living is having and following a purpose. That's all."
"Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It's a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?"
"Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear"
"Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement."
"Enjoyment of life generally includes being socially connected, having fun, and feeling a sense of purpose."
"The things people really want are love, connection, and purpose."
"In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god."
"When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it."
"But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose."
"To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy."
"People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work."
"God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose."
"I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine."
