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source: "CELAC / Zone of Peace: 'A key step to countering the globalization of militarism' – UN Expert". Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights News Item, www.ohchr.org. February 03, 2014.

topic: Strong, Purpose, Use

Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.

- Alice Bailey

source: Alice Bailey, Djwhal Khul (2012). “The Reappearance of the Christ”, p.118, Lucis Publishing Companies

topic: Light, And Love, Purpose, Light And Love

What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?

- Alice Steinbach

source: Alice Steinbach (2010). “Educating Alice”, p.147, Random House

topic: Memories, Purpose, Who We Are

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots...

- Alison Moyet

topic: Thinking, Purpose, World, Maggots

How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Motivation, Purpose, Able

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Purpose, Insignificant, Purpose Of God

Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

- Allen Weinstein

topic: Goal, Purpose, Bitter

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Animal, Purpose, Flesh, Shameful

The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.

- Alphonse Mucha

topic: Bridges, Together, Purpose, Mutual Understanding, Building Bridges

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

- Alvar Aalto

topic: Drawing, Abuse, Purpose

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

topic: Fighting, Artist, Purpose, Utilitarian, Authoritarianism

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Temptation, Purpose, Impulse

RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Science, Railroads, Purpose, Expeditions, Railroad Tracks

No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

- Amish Tripathi

topic: Simple, Journey, Purpose, Simple Truths

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

- Anatol Rapoport

source: "Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space" by Michael Parker Pearson, ‎Colin Richards, (p. 49), 2003.

topic: Dwelling, Purpose, Shelter

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

- Anaxagoras

topic: Moon, Heaven, Purpose

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: People, Curiosity, Purpose

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness

- Andrei Tarkovsky

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Purpose, Causes

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

- Andrew Loomis

source: Andrew Loomis (2018). “The Eye Of The Painter”, p.159, EDITORA BIBLIOMUNDI SERVIÇOS DIGITAIS LTDA

topic: Art, Color, Purpose

The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.

- Andrew Schneider

topic: Purpose, Transformation

When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.

- Andrew Schneider

topic: Dream, Purpose, Way

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

- Andrew Schneider

topic: Purpose, World, Mud

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

- Andrew von Eschenbach

topic: Cancer, America, Purpose, Cancer Survivor

Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.

- Andrew Wommack

topic: Jesus, Dresses, Purpose, Live Life Happy

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

- Andrew Wyeth

topic: Emotional, Purpose, Crafts

When you know that everything mattersâ€”that every move counts as much as any otherâ€”you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

- Andy Andrews

topic: Moving, Giving, Purpose

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.

- Andy Andrews

topic: Dream, Goal, Purpose, Higher Purpose

The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silver or gold.

- Andy Andrews

topic: Heart, Gold, Purpose

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

- Andy Goldsworthy

topic: Purpose, Accepting, Projects

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

- Andy Hargreaves

topic: Leadership, Learning, Purpose, Schooling

As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.

- Andy Stanley

topic: Responsibility, Giving, Purpose

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

- Andy Stern

topic: Thinking, Focus, Purpose

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

- Aneurin Bevan

topic: Power, Giving, Purpose

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

- Ang Lee

topic: Motivation, Character, Purpose

The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.

- Angela Lansbury

topic: Giving, Purpose, Want

We don't have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.

- Anita Moorjani

topic: Joy, Purpose, Elude, Elude Us

What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be.

- Anita Moorjani

source: FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Feb 06, 2017

topic: Trying, Purpose, Who We Are, Life Is A Gift

I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.

- Anita Moorjani

topic: Self, Purpose, Purpose Of Life

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

- Ann Curry

topic: Purpose, Passionate, Live With Purpose

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

- Ann Romney

topic: Joy, Riding, Purpose

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

- Anna Brownell Jameson

topic: Education, Purpose, Cherish, True Purpose

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

- Anna Godbersen

topic: Morning, Energy, Purpose

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

- Anna Louise Strong

topic: Purpose, Taught, Oppression

This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Heart, Laughing, Purpose, Confidential

In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.

- Anne Graham Lotz

topic: Purpose, Want, Scripture, Called By God, Ordination

Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.

- Anne Mallory

topic: Dream, Purpose, Behinds

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

- Anne Parillaud

topic: Purpose, Surface

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

- Anne Rice

topic: Lying, Believe, Purpose, Candor, Subversive

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

- Anne Rice

source: Anne Rice (1996). “Servant of the Bones”, Random House Large Print Publishing

topic: Purpose, World, Bears, Vampire Lestat

Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.

- Annie Ernaux

source: Annie Ernaux (2011). “Happening”, p.92, Seven Stories Press

topic: Writing, People, Purpose, True Purpose

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

- Anselm Kiefer

topic: Thinking, Purpose, Upbringing

Our purpose is simple... To Love To love each other, to love all life and to love our earth.

- Anthony D. Williams

topic: Attitude, Simple, Purpose

The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.

- Anthony Stafford Beer

source: "Diagnosing the system for organizations" by Stafford Beer, Wiley, (p. 99), 1985.

topic: Doe, Purpose, Failing

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Suffering, Purpose, Mystery, Three Sisters

Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main purpose had to be to realise as sacred art, anything which so far had been regarded as of little value and pitiful.

- Antoni Tapies

topic: Art, Opposites, Purpose, Sacred Art

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

- Antonin Scalia

topic: Purpose, Machines, Basements, Xerox

There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.

- Arianna Huffington

source: Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.22, Harmony

topic: Live Life, Looks, Purpose

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Spiritual, Moving, Purpose, Foreground

Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed.

- Aristotle

topic: Funny, Girlfriend, Purpose

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Archer, Purpose

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

- Aristotle

topic: Mean, Desire, Purpose

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

- Aristotle

topic: Character, Purpose, Virtue, Tokens

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

- Aristotle

topic: Doe, Purpose, God And Nature

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Government, Citizens, Purpose, Purpose Of Government

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

topic: Men, Purpose, Strange, Value Of Love

The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels that God is in nature, that the orderly ways in which nature works are themselves the manifestations of God's will and purpose. Its laws are his orderly way of working.

- Arthur Compton

topic: God, Law, Purpose

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Struggle, Purpose, Exhausted

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

- Arthur Hertzberg

topic: Looks, Purpose, Stories, Success Stories

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Courage, Innovation, Purpose

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

- Arthur Kornberg

source: Robert Andrews Millikan (1924). “The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties”

topic: Purpose, Half, Determine

A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and needs.

- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

topic: Impact, Needs, Purpose, Crusades, Wants And Needs

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

- Arthur Middleton

topic: People, Church, Purpose

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

topic: Home, Special, Purpose

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

- Arthur Young

topic: Men, Understanding, Purpose, Lack Of Understanding

All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once youre laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what Im saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.

- Artie Lange

topic: Mountain, Valleys, Purpose

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

- Ashley Judd

topic: Special, Purpose, Assured

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Personality, Purpose, Purpose Of Life, Victorian Times, Victorian

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

- Atom Egoyan

topic: Important, Trying, Purpose

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

- Auberon Waugh

topic: Wish, Purpose, Speech, Proximity

In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

source: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9

topic: Bad Ass, Details, Purpose

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

- Austin Carlile

topic: Meaning Of Life, Purpose, Wake Up

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Law, Purpose, Committed

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Men, Purpose, Type

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose...

- Ayn Rand

topic: Order, Purpose, Productive

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Military, Enemy, Purpose

I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.

- Barack Obama

topic: Courage, Purpose, World

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.

- Barack Obama

topic: Purpose, Poverty, Aids

The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness; it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.

- Barbara De Angelis

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Barbara De Angelis from Oct 26, 2012

topic: Block, Purpose, Doorways, New Possibilities

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Fun, Purpose, Why Not, Foreign Language

Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.

- Barbara Sher

topic: Meaningful, Criticism, Purpose

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Challenges, Purpose, Bears

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

- Barney Frank

topic: Thinking, People, Purpose

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

- Barry Diller

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Years, Focus, Purpose

The whole purpose of existence is to bring love into existence where it is needed.

- Barry Long

topic: Purpose, Existence, Needed

The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.

- Barton Seaver

source: "Sustainable Grilling With Barton Seaver". Interview with Esther Sung, www.epicurious.com. May 21, 2013.

topic: Keys, Purpose, Grilling, New Environment

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

- Basil Bunting

source: Basil Bunting (1994). “Three Essays”

topic: Purpose, Wells, Prose

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

- Bayley

topic: Law, Justice, Purpose

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

- Beck

topic: Purpose, Way, Steps

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

- Belle Boyd

source: Belle Boyd (1998). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.265, LSU Press

topic: Long, Purpose, Secession

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cashâ€¦nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

- Ben Feldman

topic: Purpose, Cash, Purpose Of Life

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

- Ben Shneiderman

topic: Purpose, Insight, Visualization

'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

- Benedict Joseph Labre

topic: Soul, Purpose, Examination, Contrition

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

- Benjamin Carson

topic: Purpose, Serving God, Please

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

- Benjamin Constant

source: 'Journal intime' 11 February 1804, in 'Revue Internationale' 10 January 1887 p. 96 (describing a conversation with Crabb Robinson about the latter's work on Kant's aesthetics).

topic: Art, Purpose, Sake

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Business, Purpose, Stakes, Human Will, Life Determination

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Men, Purpose, Wealth

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

- Benjamin Tucker

source: Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

topic: Government, Liberty, Purpose

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Men, Purpose, Fool

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Purpose

When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.

- Bertice Berry

source: Bertice Berry (2009). “The Ties That Bind: A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption”, p.101, Broadway Books

topic: Destiny, Purpose, Consciousness, Collide

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Religion, Atheism, Purpose, Purpose Driven Life

A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Thinking, Mind, Purpose, Physical Science, Tested

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Purpose, Causes, Mathematics, Divine Purpose, Undervalued

The purpose exceeds the pain.

- Beth Moore

topic: Pain, Purpose, Beth

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

- Beth Moore

topic: Purpose

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

- Betty Buckley

topic: Girl, Voice, Purpose, Loud Voices

If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.

- Bill Crawford

topic: Brain, Mind, Purpose

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

- Bill Crawford

source: Source: aliveeastbay.com

topic: Important, Purpose, Important Things In Your Life

It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

- Bill W.

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Purpose, Alcoholics Anonymous, Sober Up

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

- Bill Walsh

topic: Vision, Purpose, Path

... when we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose.

- Billy Graham

topic: Hurt, Important, Purpose

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

- Billy Sherwood

topic: Boards, Purpose, Done

Don't judge my problems when you don't know my purpose. I'm only struggling now so I can pull you through later.

- Bishop Noel Jones

topic: Struggle, Judging, Purpose

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

- Biz Stone

topic: Running, Purpose, Problem

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Long, Purpose, Suits

Your past may not be perfect, but it was perfect for your purpose.

- Bo Sanchez

source: BO SANCHEZ “You’re Weird: (In a Wonderful Way)”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

topic: Past, Perfect, Purpose, May Not Be Perfect

Don't focus on the problem, focus on the PURPOSE.

- Bo Sanchez

topic: Focus, Purpose, Problem

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

- Bob Dylan

source: Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

topic: Bullying, Purpose

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

- Bob Dylan

topic: Art, Inspire, Purpose, Purpose Of Art, Perpetual Motion

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

- Bob Filner

topic: Children, Purpose, Study, Susceptible

Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Real, Goal, Purpose

Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Vision, Purpose

My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.

- Bob Seger

source: Song: Like a Rock

topic: Light, Purpose, Politics

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

- Boris Kodjoe

topic: Children, Purpose, Settling

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

- Boris Sidis

source: Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

topic: Heart, Purpose, Chance

Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal lifeâ€”to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

- Boyd K. Packer

topic: Thinking, Temptation, Purpose

There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.

- Brad Stine

topic: Offending, Differences, Purpose, Offence, Malicious

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

- Bram Stoker

topic: Strong, Together, Purpose, Strong Together

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

- Brandon Marshall

topic: Football, Purpose, World

And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel." Galloran smiled. "Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism.

- Brandon Mull

topic: Believe, Purpose, Firsts, Hippopotamus

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

- Brandy Norwood

topic: Struggle, Together, Purpose

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

- Brassai

topic: Art, People, Purpose, Purpose Of Art, Raising Awareness

Stress is like fire: When controlled and used for a purpose, it serves us well. Left unbridled, it can consume us.

- Brendan Brazier

source: Brendan Brazier (2007). “The Thrive Diet, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Plant-Based Whole Foods Way to Staying Healthy for Life”, p.19, Penguin Canada

topic: Stress, Fire, Purpose

I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

- Brendan Fraser

topic: Appreciate, Purpose, Practicals

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