"Without a purpose, nothing should be done."
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"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
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"Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you."
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"Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples."
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"All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law"
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"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not."
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"There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor."
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"It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence."
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"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."
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"They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind."
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"In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose."
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"Anything can be achieved with a strong enough why!"
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"I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that."
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"When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life."
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"The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right."
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"Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living."
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"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."
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"Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action."
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"You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops."
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"The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith."
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