Quotes Tagged "purpose"

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.

Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely

Use time to create the nature of God in yourself

To fully communicate with people, you need to find tactics that would interest them

You need to use the instrument that the people desire to captivate them back to things that are right

To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time

Knowing what to do with time is the first step to take when you lose your job

Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive

A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.

Wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled); then it is peace loving, courteous (considerate, gentle). (It is willing to) yield to reason, full of compassion and good fruits; it is wholehearted and straightforward, impartial and unfeigned (free from doubts, wavering, and insincerity). James 3:17 (AMPC), Secretly Brilliant, page xv.

If it can give me wisdom, I will go for that road and figure a way of dealing with the obstacles. I will bank on my intelligence and ability, both gained through eons of evolution, to help me out.

The funny thing about wisdom is that it comes when most of the important decisions in life have already been made.

When your concepts about life are clear, you are on the right road to pursue truth.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

A Man Said to the Universe A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come and where they go.

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?