#purpose

Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#community #contribution #difference #drift #happiness

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#inspirational #purpose #inspirational

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. ↗

— Rumi

#life-lessons #purpose #inspirational

You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you. ↗

— George Alexiou

#inspirational #love #self-help #spirituality #the-purpose-of-life

The fact that you are still alive assures you that God has something for you to accomplish. ↗

— Rodney A. Winters

#purpose #inspirational

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#education #himself #man #purpose #sunset

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ↗

— William Bartram

#animal #artifice #attention #bestow #creation

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#assure #attention #congress #defence #denied

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#being #being used #beings #cannot #god

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. ↗

— George Armstrong Custer

#narrative #possible #purpose #truthful