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“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.”
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
“The purpose of life is to fight maturity.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ”
“Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.”
“I believe every person is created as the steward of his or her destiny with great power for a specific purpose to share with others, through service, a reverence for life in a spirit of love.”
“Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.”
“Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.”
“What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.”
“Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.”
“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”
“A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?”
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”
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