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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
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
- Mitch Albom
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
The question is not whether we will be extremists,
but what kind of extremists we will be...
The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
You have to realize: OK, I don't know how
to solve a political problem,
I don't know how to solve the pollution problem...
all I know is in my own life,
I need to figure out some sense of purpose,
I need to figure out how to be happy...
and I'm willing.
- Jewel
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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