To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
I wrote a few children's books... Not on purpose.
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
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