#purpose

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. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#again #began #beginning #each #fail

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#christ #gimmicks #glorify #i #innovation

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#hugely #i #loud #purpose #relieved

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. ↗

— Rick Warren

#life

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#crosses #everyone #i #me #mean

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

#below #contemptible #degree #dignity #great

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightenment #life-s-greatest-answers #life-s-purpose #living-the-question #meditation

You make me believe in happiness... if I had my way, if anything were up to me, I’d never be without you. You are my purpose. ↗

— Courtney Kirchoff

#happiness #love #purpose-in-life #life

Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#stoicism #wisdom #life

You're living your days at the moment how a sheep grazes, meandering, not engaged with anything much. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#direction #purpose-of-life #life