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Purpose

My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.
- Yaacov Agam

Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
With the majority the bark of thought is allowed to 'drift' upon the ocean of life.
- James Allen

It is important to have something to do that has no purpose.
- Sister Agatha Fitzgerald

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
- Lucian Freud

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what
he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
- Erich Fromm

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
- Kenneth Hildebrand

The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light
in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Gustav Jung

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul
is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
- Wassily Kandinsky

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that
everything in this life has a purpose.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will.
- Shaun McNiff

The purpose of life is to remember.
- Henry Miller

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is -- or to even realize what it is.
- Sinead O'Connor

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter,
to be productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you lived at all.
- Leo Rosten

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
- Mary Shelly

The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting
point of all success.
- Brian Tracy

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that
it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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