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Quotes About Purpose

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.
~ Maimonides
ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.
~ Laozi
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
~ James Russell Lowell
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
~ Edward Abbey
And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.
~ Andrew Schneider
The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.
~ Swami Vivekananda
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
~ Napoleon Hill
In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.
~ Aristotle
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
~ Alexander Pope
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
~ Terence McKenna
Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself
~ Michel de Montaigne
Nature has made nothing in vain.
~ Delarivier Manley
Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.
~ Michael Pollan
There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.
~ Nelson Mandela
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
~ Samuel Butler
Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.
~ Epictetus
Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations