My Purpose Quotes
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose.
The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.
The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
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.
THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN.
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.
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.
Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.
A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.
When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely, without any doubt.
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible-but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes
It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.
I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.
Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.
Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.