What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. - Edward Abbey One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life?... From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment... Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness. - Dalai Lama What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. - Nadine Gordimer What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fo...

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. - Barbara De Angelis Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we hadn't had before. Would I trade that in order to have her back? In a fraction of a millisecond. But I won't ever have her back. So I have taken this, as her great gift to us. But. Do I block her out? Never. Do I think of her? Always. In some part of my brain, I think of her every single moment of every single day. - Elizabeth Berg Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn't fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do without her fussing and making you do it? Everyone needs a mom. And a mom knowns this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get ...

Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose of my art. The other half must be to tell my story in the most honest way that I can. - Edward Abbey What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. - Edward Abbey Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world. - Chinua Achebe The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. - J R R Tolkien The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. - Mortimer Adler The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. - David Viscott The purpose of a...

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for? - Rick Warren We are product of our past but we dont have to be prisoners of it. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for? - Rick Warren

From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my purpose. If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology. - Veronica Roth I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.' - Fantasia Barrino It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer. - Juliette Binoche She's my purpose and we're going to save each other. We're going to save everyone. And then I'm going to convince her that she's supposed to stay here. With me. - Kendare Blake My purpose is: What Lord? Where Lord? When Lord? Yes Lord! - Christine Brooks Martin My purpose is far greater than my pain. - Foxy Brown It is at moments like the...

Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life. - Rick Warren The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting pointourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose. - Rick Warren If you create and market a product or service through a business that is in alignment with your personality, capitalizes on your history, incorporates your experiences, harnesses your talents, optimizes your strengths, complements your weaknesses, honors your life's purpose, and moves you towards the conquest of your own fears, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that anyone in this or any ot...

Lorsen shook his head in amazement. 'You truly are disgusting.' 'I would be the last to disagree, but you fail to see that you are worse. No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself in the right. No purpose more evil than the higher purpose. I freely admit I am a villain. That's why you hired me. But I am no hypocrite. - Joe Abercrombie But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day? - Elizabeth Gilbert So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes. - Robert Kiyosaki But even the wors...

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are! - Eckhart Tolle In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory. - Thomas Merton The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally? - John Morton Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are. - John Piper Human affairs are not governed ultimately by historical events, fate, or chance, but by God...Divine purpose moving steadily from beginning to end. - Eugenia Price Unlike Rosa...

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. - Napoleon Hill Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. - W Clement Stone

I wonder if you've got a minute. I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose. - Jodi Picoult The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose. - Madeleine Albright With common purpose comes, a mission and we should use it for far greater objectives, for human lives and to save our future generations. - Santosh Kalwar Formation of Network of people for common purpose leads to Society with common objectives. - Santosh Kalwar With sharing our common purpose we multiply and with keeping to ourselves we divide. - Santosh Kalwar We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose. - Barack Obama We're helping those children who cannot help themselv...