{"quotes":[{"text":"Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["creativity","idea","ideals","ideas","labor","purpose-driven-life","purpose-of-life","purposeful-journey","purposeful-life","work","working"],"id":67782,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["enlightenment","enlightenment-principles","enlightenment","meaningful-life","meaningful-living","meaningfulness","purpose","purpose-driven-life","purposeful-journey","purposeful-living","purposefulness","search-for-truth"],"id":69678,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation in how a person lives. Purposeful modification of the self only commences with revising our mind’s internal functions. Revamped internal functions eventually alter how we view our external environment.","author":"Kilroy J. 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He who wants to completely do away with uncertainties before starting a purposeful journey of life shall always end a purposeful journey on the path of uncertainties without beginning any purposeful journey of life.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["a-great-footprint","a-journey-without-an-end","double-minded","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","living-purposefully","purposeful-journey","the-journey-of-life","time-management","time-passing","timing","uncertainties","unending-path-of-life","waiting-to-start"],"id":268410,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Living deeply requires more than a static vivisection of a person’s history and a cold survey of the world. Living a meaningful life entails immersion in the continuous flow of life through passionate thinking, observation, and directed action.","author":"Kilroy J. 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Oldster","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-and-dying","death","life-and-death","meaningful","meaningful-life","meaningful-living","meaningful","meaningfulness","purpose-driven-life","purpose-in-life","purpose","purposeful-journey","purposeful-living"],"id":364654,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Advancing towards a person’s dreams with confidence enables a person to move beyond restrictive boundaries and meet with uncommon success. Liberated from personal insecurities and eliminating useless second guessing enables a person to live an imagined life.","author":"Kilroy J. 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