Quotes by Purpose Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into. Gayle Forman builtpurposepersons The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life. Gary Zukav characteristicspurposejoy Even if you find him. Even if he didn't leave you on purpose, he can't possibly live up to the person you've built him into." It's not like the thought hasn't occurred to me. I get that the chances of finding him are small, but the chances of finding him as I remember him are even smaller. But I just keep going back to what my dad always says, about how when you lose something, you have to visualize the last place you had it. And I found―and then lost―so many things in Paris. Gayle Forman parisdadpurpose Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later. Gene Wolfe communicationpurposemen Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living. Gautama Buddha buddhistfailingpurpose The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are. Gary Zukav purposeshouldthinking The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable. Geneen Roth purposespiritualway I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them. Geoffrey Fisher catholicpurposetrouble The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually. Romantic relationships can do this because they are interactions in which you come to see those parts of yourself that are constructive, healthy and creative. You see them because you project them onto someone else. Gary Zukav healthycreativepurpose Spiritual partnership is the partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Gary Zukav growthpurposespiritual The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually. Gary Zukav romantic-relationshipgrowspurpose Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense. Friedrich Nietzsche naturepurposelaw To increase the flow of kundalini that will alter our perception, it is necessary to clarify the purpose of one's being. This is to come to understand dharma. Frederick Lenz buddhismperceptionpurpose My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. George Armstrong Custer narrativepurposetruth The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel purposecharacterphilosophy One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation. Friedrich Nietzsche communicationpurposethinking The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself. George F. Kennan nucleardefensepurpose The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker. George Frisbie Hoar purposedesireway Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. George Halas objectivitypurposepeople To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature. George Hodges (theologian) fulfillmentpurposedesire«4243444546474849505152»
