"The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer"
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"Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others."
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"Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings."
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"The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free."
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"No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose"
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"The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."
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"That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, the Self, there is a mental vibration 'I' to which all are reduced. Tracing the source of 'I', the primal 'I-I' alone remains over, and it is inexpressible. The seat of Realisation is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart. The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do."
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"Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty."
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"The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'"
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"Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time."
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"We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled."
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"If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise."
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"We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage."
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"The sum of the whole is this: walk and b« happy! walk and be healthy. The best of all ways to lengthen ourdays, is notas Mr. Thomas Moore has it, " ]To steal a few hours from night, my love;" but with leave, be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose."
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"Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness."
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"God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose"
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"Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done"
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"Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you'll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here."
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"I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned."
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"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."
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