My Purpose Quotes
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.
Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature.
People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.
I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
There’s a time and purpose for being lost. If you don’t judge the being lost you get through it sooner.
I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes.
Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.
Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge
In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.
When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.
Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.
All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.