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Letter "P" » purpose
«Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.»
Author: Anne Sullivan
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
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«I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness?»
«Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
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«It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts?it is to teach them to think.»
«Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.»
«Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
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«How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
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«Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Necessity,
Purpose,
Style
| Keywords:
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«I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
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