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Quotes About Purpose

Live the life you've dreamed
~ Henry David Thoreau
Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the rest of life is nothing but vanity, illusion, waste. There is only one science, love, only one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law, and the prophets.
~ Anatole France
Why do we have to listen to our hearts? Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.
~ Paulo Coelho
Wherever I am, whatever I do, my only purpose in life is to see you a restless desire like the need to see the light in the morning.
~ Unknown
I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way
~ Bernie Siegel
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
~ Australian Aboriginal Proverb
Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.
~ M Scott Peck
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
~ Margaret Fuller
Give me love and work - these two only
~ William Morris
There is not love where there is no will.
~ Indira Gandhi
Whoever loves, if he do not propose the right true end of love, he's one that goes to sea for nothing but to make him sick
~ John Donne
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
~ Pearl Bailey
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
~ Thomas Wolfe
When love is deep, much can be accomplished
~ Shinichi Suzuki
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving I'll tell you one thing It's always better when we're together.
~ Jack Johnson
When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction
~ Ginger Rogers
Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
~ Ray Bradbury
It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to And someone to love.
~ Maya Angelou
Love builds up the broken wall and straigtens the crooked path. love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it
~ Maya Angelou
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
~ Morrie Schwartz
My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe