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Willa Cather: “That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.”

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David Viscott: “The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”

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Laurence J. Peter: “If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”

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Dawna Markova: “When we find ourselves devoid of passion and purpose, the first thing we need to do is stop. But that's not easy. The rest of the world is zooming by at full speed. Left alone with ourselves, without a project to occupy us, we can become nervous and self-critical about what we should be doing and feeling. This can be so uncomfortable that we look for any distraction rather than allowing ourselves the space to be as we are.”

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Frederick Buechner: “Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's needs.”

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Marshall Ferdinand Foch: “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”

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Rosa Parks: “Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.”

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Marian Anderson: “[I]f you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.”

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Joseph Campbell: “'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

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Sir Julian Huxley: “There are two ways of living: a man may be casual and simply exist, or constructively and deliberately try to do so. The constructive idea implies a constructiveness not only about one's own life, but about that of society, and the future possibilities of mankind.”

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E. B. White: “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

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Dawna Markova: “To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.”

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Oprah Winfrey: “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”

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Jose Ortega y Gasset: “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. ”

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Friedrich Nietzsche: “To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Action expresses priorities. ”

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Henry David Thoreau: “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

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Helen Keller: “Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”

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Rita Mae Brown: “A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. ”

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Henry David Thoreau: “That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”

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George Bernard Shaw: “This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.”

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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.”

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Grandma Moses: “Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.”

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Ursula K. Le Guin: “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

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Anne Sullivan: “Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose -- not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”

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Charles Schulz: “My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?”

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