Purpose Quotes

Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible-but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes.

I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.

The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.