Life Wisdom & Purpose
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Life Wisdom & Purpose

Discover profound insights about living a meaningful life with timeless wisdom from philosophers, thinkers, and life experts. These quotes explore purpose, values, and the deeper truths that guide us toward a fulfilling and intentional existence.

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Created 7/3/2025
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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it.
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LB Living Better... the only mistake is not to begin.
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Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.
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Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.
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If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?
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It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.
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It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.
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While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.
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The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.
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People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.
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In Life if there is a lot of 'YOU'You be the Victim,& if there is a lot of 'I', you be the Accuser & Accused both as with arrogrance profound. Balance Life with 'WE'.
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Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
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Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.
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Your perspective of life may be a finite one, but you are neither finite nor limited! Refuse to live with guilt or regret. Refuse to see yourself as not good enough. you are totally sufficient in your health, wealth, citizenship & abundance.
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When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.
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I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
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Its really amazing when someone need your help in there life and you help them from your heart
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It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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All other things held constant, to the extent that an individual or society sees, believes in, and acts in abundance, so will it have wealth and happiness.
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I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.
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Never forget to express your gratitude for the abundance and beauty of your life.
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I rigorously lament all of the many things that I don’t have. But in this self-imposed and rather lively pity-party to which I’ve invited myself, what I forget are the resources I do have that equip me to obtain what I don’t.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward.
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The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
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Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
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By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions.
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All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
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All who joy would winMust share it -- Happiness was born a twin.
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For me the book is the man and my book is the man I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the recklass man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically thruthful man that I am.
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Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.
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He had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.{Edison's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll}
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There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.
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There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.
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Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.
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The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.
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From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails
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Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.
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A man's best helper is his Maker.
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I said your name five times too many because I was searching to see if you came when I needed you.
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We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.
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There’s so much ‘expression’ today you can’t hear the real problems. Maybe we switch tasks. To trust our current exhibitions can do their job. It is worth a try. A generation sacrificing their pride to save the future. Granted, our art is needed and could reveal our faults, but do evil men watch movies? Something soon must die. To trust the future will take care of itself is to deny an obvious and necessary revolution.
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There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
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Because we don’t ‘want’ God in no ways means that we don’t ‘need’ Him. And if we confuse the two, we might get what we want but we will die for lack of what we need.
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The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
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Gratitude is the key for the door of abundance.
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I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.
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We must transcend the illusion that money or power has any bearing on our worthiness as children of God.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife.
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You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
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It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.
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Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
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It is in the best interest of the talent management to improve employee performance by striking the right balance of ends and means.
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I have come to believe that our psychic senses are our primary senses, the senses we have as spirit beings, and our physical senses are extensions of those primary psychic senses. We come into this world and into the womb with our psychic senses fully developed; it’s only after birth, as a child develops and ages, that these psychic senses recede while our physical senses take over.
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But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.
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Today is a beautiful day. I AM deeply grateful for everything in my life. ALL is welcome here!
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A sigh, a scream, a touch say so much more than words ever could.
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Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
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The key to abundance is acceptance. The more you expect, the less you accept.
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If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.
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I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to mymeeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me.Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pairof lips.
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Nature does not take sides, it is just maintaining or restoring the balance.
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Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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The only way to help people is to see the good in them
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Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?
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Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
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To hold on to hygge, we learn to listen and to speak up. We hone the art of conversation and attempt to master an evenness of flow (an equal share of contributions and turns), and to maintain a sense of mutual involvement. Those of us who are more introverted can relax in the knowledge that no one is expected to take centre stage. For an occasion to work well for everyone, the desire for hygge has to be balanced with a respect for individuality.
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Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
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True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.
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Balances flow into one another, like the tides. Their boundaries are seldom clearly drawn.
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I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?
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Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.
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Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.
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I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night," said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?""Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry.