Pastoral Resources

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.

Every path serves a purpose.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.