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Quotes for Transformation ~ LIFE PURPOSE ~"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." —Albert Schweitzer "If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the past's effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the cause of the future." —Majjhima Nikaya "All of life is a near-death experience." —Alan Harris "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." —Cherokee Expression "There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans." —John Lennon "Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself." —Emerson "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." —Henry Van Dyke "Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." —Karen Casey "It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving." —Mother Teresa "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." —Dalai Lama We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace. –William E. Gladstone We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. –George Bernard Shaw I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. –Oprah Winfrey The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence. –Alan Cohen "Ships are safe within the harbor, but is that what ships are for?"
One ship sails East, "You often meet your destiny on the road you've taken to avoid it." "Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception." —Dan Millman "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique." —Martha Graham "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside awakes." —Carl Gustav Jung "Wisdom is knowing what path to take next... Integrity is taking it." "We can't change the wind, but we can adjust the sails." "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." —Jim Rohn "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." —William Jennings Bryan "The meaning of life is to give life meaning." —Ken Hudgins "Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals." —Deepak Chopra "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." —Carl Bard "It's never too late to be what you might have been." —George Elliot "Life's like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending..." —Jim Henson "Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you." —Alan Cohen "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." —Jeremy Kitson "Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all." —Helen Keller "There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity." —Douglas MacArthur "It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey." —Wendell Berry "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." —Mark Twain "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." —Michaelangelo "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." —Harold Whitman "The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today." —Les Brown "When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." —Pantanjali "Nothing happens unless first a dream." —Carl Sandburg "Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know - that man is here for the sake of other men." —Albert Einstein "Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission." —Rudolph Steiner "The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder." —Thomas Carlyle "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." —Carl Jung "I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." —Leo C. Rosten "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything." —Samuel Johnson "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." —Mahatma Ghandi "A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help." —George Orwell "It is never too late to become what you might have been." —George Elliot "I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not — more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving." —Beverly Sills "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." —George Bernard Shaw "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." —Lao Tzu "He who dares nothing need hope for nothing." "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." —Theodore Roosevelt "A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."
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