Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Is the system going to flatten you out
and deny you your humanity,
or are you going to be able to make use of the system
to the attainment of human purposes?
- Joseph Campbell
The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes
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
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 mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- 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
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
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.
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If by chance some day you're not feeling well
and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done
and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart,
then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
- Red Skelton
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
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
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
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
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
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
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
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
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
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
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
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
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 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
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
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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