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  • More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the beginning of another way of looking at the world is to re-evaluate all of our beliefs. It is, after all, our beliefs that determine what we are, experience, and expect. When we are willing to take a new look at our own beliefs, we then have an opportunity to begin rediscovering who and what we are and to redetermine our true purpose on Earth.

  • In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

    Randy Weston, Willard Jenkins (2015). “African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston”, p.298, Duke University Press
  • What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

    Pain   Drama   Challenges  
    Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments”, Fine Communications
  • When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parents, and explains why childrens books are a very hot and lucrative industry. Instead of telling your child the truth of our history and existence, you are conditioned by society to simply read your kid a fairytale.

    Children   Book   Kids  
  • It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.

    Drinking   Water   Doubt  
  • The essence of Reality TV is all about drama. So, I think bringing pressure is healthy whether it's a professional chef or a domestic chef. Because the only way ever to really identify the true purpose of how good they are is submerging them under pressure. So I say it's no different than a live football game because it's about the intensity.

    Source: deadline.com
  • It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it. Thus the true purpose of art is the same as the true purpose of anything: it is not for ourselves or for our own self-expression, but for the service of others and the glory of God.

    Art   Self   Expression  
  • 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.

  • A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

  • It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.

  • The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

  • The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

  • The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

  • The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

  • Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

    Self   People   Religion  
    Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs
  • As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose - that it may violate property instead of protecting it - then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.

    Law   Long   Use  
    "La Loi (The Law)". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.
  • Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

  • Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

    Joy   Purpose   May  
  • When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with a strong heart every trial which Heaven sends upon them, then one day at the last Almighty Providence will yet grant them the fruits of their struggle and of their sacrifices. For God has never abandoned any man upon this earth unless he has first abandoned himself.

    Strong   Struggle   Heart  
  • The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

    Real   Men   Years  
  • This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

    Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)
  • Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.

    FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 12, 2013
  • The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.301, Best Books on
  • At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I’d thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she’d shown. Soon, though, I’d figured out the animals’ true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food.

    Baby   Teacher   Zoos  
    Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Men of the Otherworld”, p.124, Vintage Canada
  • Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

    Art   Real   Thinking  
    "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, October 30, 2009.
  • The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

    Careers   Mind   Purpose  
    Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.107, Nation Books
  • I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.

    "Why I Walked Away From the NBA (Video)" by Larry Sanders, www.theplayerstribune.com. February 25, 2015.
  • Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has been with the desire that man-in whom geological history had its consummation, the prophecies of the successive ages their fulfilment-might better comprehend his own nobility and the true purpose of his existence.

    Science   Men   History  
    James Dwight Dana (1869). “Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special Reference to American Geological History, for the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools of Science”, p.9
  • Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, passionless lives, disconnected from our soul's true purpose. But when you have the courage to shape your life from the essence of who you are, you ignite, becoming truly alive.

  • By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.

    FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jan 04, 2012
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