“Nothing at all is lost
When life has clear purpose.”
"When You Have Purpose", as quoted in Understanding Vietnam by Neil Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), p. 267, and in Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam by Zachary Abuza (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001), p. 58
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Chế Lan Viên 9
Vietnamese writer 1920–1989Related quotes
Source: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 30
“Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.”
Nada está perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo está perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo.
Source: Rayuela (Hopscotch) (1963), Chapter 71.
Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 13 (p. 239)
“The clear purpose of the leader is to give a clear purpose to the team.”
“When You've lost it all…. that's when you realize that Life is Beautiful.”
Variant: When You've lost it all.... thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
Michel Henry, Du communisme au capitalisme, éd. Odile Jacob, 1990, p. 220
Books on Economy and Politics, From Communism to Capitalism (1990)
Original: (fr) Quand ce qui ne sent rien et ne se sent pas soi-même, n'a ni désir ni amour, est mis au principe de l'organisation du monde, c'est le temps de la folie qui vient, car la folie a tout perdu sauf la raison.
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2002), Ch. 2 : I'm Not an Accident
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Interview in Speaking of Science Fiction: The Paul Walker Interviews (1978)
Context: When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe. It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry — yours and mine — back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet. The same thing could be done for the spider that spun his web in the grass, and of the grass in which the web was spun, the bird sitting in the tree and the tree in which he sits, the toad waiting for the fly beneath the bush, and for the fly and bush. We are all genetic brothers. The chain of life, tracing back to that primordial day of life's beginning, is unbroken...