Thomas S. Monson Quotes, Needs Quotes, Purpose Quotes

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

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It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

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The purpose of life is to be happy.

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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

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I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

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You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

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From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

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Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.

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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

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TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

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No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

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