#purpose

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— John Mason Brown

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And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene. ↗

— Christine Lahti

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

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A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. ↗

— George Leonard

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