"We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it."

Purpose, Creation, Choice, Freedom

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"We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it."

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"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."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Purpose, Life, Truth, Expectation

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

A.J. Darkholme, American Author

Purpose, Submission, Faith, Life

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

Graham Leonard, British Clergyman

Purpose, Earth, Heaven, Population

"Fulfilling your special calling brings the greatest happiness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Purpose, Fulfilling, Calling, Happiness, Life

"God has a need one that only mankind can fulfil."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Purpose, God, Need, Mankind, Fulfillment

"If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?"

Stephen King, American Author

Purpose, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Purpose, Cause, Death, Meaning, Life

"The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Purpose, Work, Passion, Meaning

"There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

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"Well, whose opinion did you take? "I don't ask for opinions." "What do you go by?"Judgment. "Well, whose judgment did you take? "Mine. "But whom did you consult about it?". "Nobody."

Integrity

"Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor-by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence-and every achievement is an expression of it."

Motivational

"No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea."

Society

"Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification."

Philosophy

"Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed."

Philosophy

"Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious."

Ethics

"If, to him, love was a celebration of one's self and of existence-then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love."

Reflection

"She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!"

Peace

"Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result."

Philosophy

"There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right. It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force (like soviet Russia), or by vote (like Nazi Germany)."

Politics