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The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life. -- Eric Hoffer
It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away. -- Bob Goff
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility -- Eric Hoffer
I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out? -- Oprah Winfrey
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world. -- Alan Watts
It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.' p 5 -- Jane McGonigal
The best way to create a purposeful life is to allow the soul's decision to precede the body's action. One does not do something in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, therefore, does certain things in certain ways. The actions of the body were meant to be reflections of a state of being, not attempts to attain a state of being. -- Neale Donald Walsch
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live. -- Howard Thurman
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. -- Potter Stewart
The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life. -- Ben Shapiro
Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful. -- Tom Shadyac
Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills. -- Brendon Burchard
I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty. -- Harmony Korine
My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom. -- Christian Borle
Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. -- Steve Gleason
I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life. -- Selma Blair
I don't know much about Britain. I've been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I'd like to see what sort of problems there really are here. It's a question of asking, 'Where are we going, how purposeful are we?' And see if there's anything that can be done to find possibilities for change. -- Rory Stewart
My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life. -- Chelsea Clinton
I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' small town in upstate New York. -- James Howard Kunstler
Life is a purposeful action. -- Asa Don Brown
A purposeful life is a happy life. -- Debasish Mridha
The purpose of life is to be purposeful. -- Debasish Mridha
Love is deepest driving passion of a purposeful life. -- Debasish Mridha
Positive goals lead to positive actions for purposeful life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble. -- Patanjali
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal. -- Ayn Rand
The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful. -- Billy Graham
We are already abundant, we have everything we need within us, to live a purposeful and fulfilling life. -- Avis J. Williams
Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality. -- Meher Baba
It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life -- Potter Stewart
Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random. -- Hamza Yusuf
Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful. -- Hermann Oberth
One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear. -- Sarah L. Cook

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