Pastoral Resources

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a 'public purpose."

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.