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?
Marie Kondo
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.
Coretta Scott King
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.
Peng Liyuan
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.
Wayne Dyer
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Abraham Lincoln
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
William Irwin Thompson
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.
Fantasia Barrino
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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
Richard Russo
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton
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!
Michael Flanders
I wrote a few children's books... Not on purpose.
Steven Wright
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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
Charles H. Parkhurst
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
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