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"Once You Realize your Purpose in Life, do whatever it Takes within Good means in order to Fulfill your Destiny. This is Your Life, No One can Live it for You. The Journey is Yours."

"There is a difference between working hard to create a life that truly serves you and working hard to create a life that you've been told you should want."

"Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through."

"The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain."

"The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven."

"Fulfilling your special calling brings the greatest happiness."

"God has a need one that only mankind can fulfil."
Explore more quotes by Ira Glass

"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."

"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."

"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."

"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."

"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."

"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."

"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."

"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."

"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
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