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Quotes About Purpose

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
~ Norman Cousins
that a highly developed purpose and the will to live are among the prime raw materials of human existence. I became convinced that these materials may well represent the most potent force within human reach.
~ Norman Cousins
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~ Norman Cousins
The tragedy of life is not death it is what we let die inside of us while we live.
~ Norman Cousins
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
~ Norman Cousins
No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.
~ Norman Doidge
Everybody overstates his case, particularly when he is anxious to do something which he considers useful.
~ Norman Douglas
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
~ Norman Mailer
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
~ Norman Mailer
You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.
~ Norman Mailer
He wants us to understand that we are only branches which have changed trees. We never produced fruit without a tree! To
~ Unknown
I just wanted to do something important.
~ Norman Rockwell
You could be the first nation to tell your children to ask themselves what work in the world would most become their souls and to prepare to do it.
~ Norman Rush
Remember for whom you work: whether you work for a private company, a large corporation, or yourself, true disciples understand that he or she ultimately is working for God. 'Whatever your task, put yourselves into it, as done for the Lord and not for your masters , since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward ; you serve the Lord Christ '" Col. 3:23-24
~ Unknown
All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Love works magic. It is the final purpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.
~ Novalis
The most intimate community of all knowledge—the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.
~ Novalis
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
~ Novalis
Sólo es realmente hermoso lo que no sirve para nada. Todo lo que es útil es feo, porque es la expresión de alguna necesidad y las necesidades del hombre son ruines y desagradables, igual que su pobre y enfermiza naturaleza. El rincón más útil de una casa son las letrinas (p.
~ Unknown
Si el biofísico y filósofo Pierre Lecomte du Noüy nos ha invitado a reflexionar sobre el hecho de que «en la escala de los seres, sólo el hombre realiza actos inútiles»,
~ Unknown
No friendship is an accident.
~ O. Henry
?nsanl?k öldü belki de hiç ya?amam??t?..!! Humanity was dead.Maybe never live too..!!
~ Unknown
Tanr? ya da tabiat mutlak yola girmesini istedi?i yüz ki?i için yüzbin ki?i yaratt? diye, doksan dokuz bin dokuz yüz ki?iden birisi olarak ya?amak neden gerekli, soruyorum?
~ Unknown