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«Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, Philosopher) | About: Life, Mind, Purpose | Keywords: finite, finitude, grasp, infinitude, infinitudes, possibilities, surrounded
«My heart is a gypsy - continuously searching for a home, fighting within itself, wondering whether it is weak or even right for that matter to be searching in the first place. Lonliness is what it feels like...»
Author: Jenna Jameson (Actress) | About: Books, Heart, Life, Lonliness, Love, Purpose, Wonder
«I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.»
Author: Zelda Fitzgerald | About: Life, Love, Priorities, Purpose | Keywords: first, How We Live, incidentally, I Want to Live, live, live over, love, To Live, want
«Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!'»
Author: Thomas Kempis | About: Purpose | Keywords: drifting, hitherto, languid, review, reviewed, reviewing
«LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Celebrity, Life, Love, Purpose
«Life has a higher end,than to be amused.»
Author: William Ellery Channing (Author, Clergyman) | About: Purpose, Reality
«Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Purpose | Keywords: after, entire, fish, fished, fishing, go, How to fish, knowing, lives, many, men, their
«Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Destiny, Purpose
«I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (President) | About: Action, Belief, Compassion, Dignity, Ideas, Inventions, Purpose | Keywords: Action The, Human dignity, Human heart, invention, national, The Source
«Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Necessity, Purpose, Style | Keywords: Better Than Life, dressing, get a look, get dressed, good, good and, good looks, have a look, Having, is a, is not, life, looking, look out on, look up to, necessity, purpose, purposing, take a look, well, welled
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