Sentences with phrase «purpose in life seems»

Adoptable greyhounds tend to be dogs who are retired from racing or breeding, and once they become accustomed to life indoors and to having kind people to care for them, their main purpose in life seems to be to find a soft spot, such as your couch, to curl up on and rest.

Jake Lacy («The Office») is her bumbling brother Brett, whose sole purpose in life seems to be hanging around Claire's office while eating Pop - Tarts and asking stupid questions.

Its only purpose in life seems to be to tick a box in the coalition agreement.

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It doesn't and didn't deserve damnation, at least not from anyone not named God, and especially not from remarkably un-peaceful «peace» advocates who seem to find their moral purpose in life by clinging ever more tightly to deluded notions of «empire» the further we get from their hoary 1890s Leninist (See Songbook # 5) provenance.

everthing I see around is quite the opposite, believers seems to be that much more motivated as they have a strong sense of purpose in life.

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

I guess when the only «purpose» in life these people have is to breath air & wait to die, it seems like the «thing - to - do», LMAO

It is also our duty as Americans to be acquainted with and appreciate the motley of particulars — individuals whatever their kinds or styles or stations in life, ideas whatever their seeming worth, practices whatever their scope or legitimacy — that are encircled by the horizons of that coherence and purpose.

When I was 15, I «gave my life to Christ» — not in a church, but alone, in my room, after months of reading and thinking and looking for purpose and meaning and direction and something bigger than the depressing and lonely life I seemed to be stuck with — and I expected to find those things.

What so many Catholics seem to be saying is that, so far as we can determine with our unaided human intellects, according to even the «metaphysically modest» version of neo-Darwinism, there is no real plan, purpose, or design in living things, and absolutely no directionality to evolution; yet we know those things to be true by faith.

Reflecting on this led me to think that I had been rescued I because God had some purpose for my life and, in the early 1950s, unaware of social work and many other options, the way to respond seemed to be to become a clergyman.

He is finding a sense of purpose and joy in this, and wants to offer a message to people who are stuck in a mindless pursuit of work, consumerism or an ideal life - style that always seems just out of reach.

This postulate of invariability seems at first sight to be admissible in the «Darwinian» zones of Life, where the instinct of self - preservation predominates (this seeming by its nature to be more or less constant among organized beings), but it certainly loses all value in the «Lamarckian» or human zone, where biological evolution, from being passive, becomes active in the pursuit of its purpose.

Cheap meaning makes life apparently exciting in the short term; it seems to give a purpose, but in fact it is a mirage, an illusion.

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The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.

Wow, to me your life seems pretty lonely and void of purpose save one thing whereas I see my purpose for living everyday in my experiences and people I make an impact on.

Judging the book by its title, I was expecting just another account of the various «coincidences» found in the fundamental laws and constants of the universe, which seem amazingly carefully chosen to allow the emergence of life, and which therefore point to the existence of a Cosmic Designer who brought the world into existence for just that purpose.

It takes courage and empathy to find your own meaning and purpose in a world that seems quite empty and cold when you let go of belief in gods, but many of us eventually feel freer, lighter, and find more potential in our godless lives.

It seems to many thoughtful people, in any case, that a God endowed with traditional omnipotence could have made this a far better world, even for the purpose of soul - making, by preventing a wide range of evils that have destroyed or stunted billions of lives throughout human history.

It sits in the hills where he trained for expeditions and tramped as a member of local tramping clubs (still accepting members, btw) and gradually started to find his purpose in life when he noticed that, more than almost anyone else, Edmund Hillary did not seem to get tired no matter how bad the terrain might be.

There was a while back there when it seemed like my sole purpose in life was to banish the birthday treat from school classrooms.

I needed a filtering system that helped me hang on to not just what sparked joy in my life, but what served a purpose and seemed to be something I'd actually wear.

This did not go well at all with my strong - minded, unwavering daughter, since it seemed her main purpose in life was to do things her own way.

Clinton made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Rump does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus!

And while «cultivating a life purpose» may seem like a vague mission, participants were asked to rate how strongly they felt good about what they had done in the past, and what they hoped to do in the future.

Cole and Mason, along with their two other chums, Ollie (Shiloh Fernandez) and Squirrel (Alex Shaffer), have little purpose in life and seem content to work as bottom - rung club promoters.

Set in an alternate history in which scientists have found a way to greatly extend people's lives by harvesting human clones whose only purpose is to grow up and donate their vital organs, «Never Let Me Go» seems to be an allegory about the elusive nature of life and death.

To me, the 2.5 i Premium seemed infinitely more honest about its intended purpose in life than that XT.

If Demeter takes us back to an agricultural way of life that imagined Earth and its manifestations as aspects of maternal nurturing, the strident gods of Olympus, challenging and overthrowing one another, males always primed for battle and sexual conquest, females seizing control only by wheedling indirection, are projections of a warrior culture that set victory in armed combat above all other goals — or at least seemed to, for there are always, deep within any society, dreams that run in another, even in a contrary, direction from its articulated purposes.

That our children do not seem to listen to us or to embrace our traditions and culture as their own would, perhaps, be acceptable in itself — if we felt that they were truly self - sufficient, self - directed and grounded in themselves, if they had a positive sense of who they are and if they possessed a clear sense of direction and purpose in life.

There is purpose in Sol's life, too: taking care of Ming and having fun with her friend Manny though his desire to kiss her seems silly.

What role or purpose does art seem to fulfill in their lives?

Almost any author who is trying to sell books these days has run into the trolls and sock puppets who seem to spend their days leaving nasty or idiotic reviews (for books they obviously haven't read) for no particular purpose except to wield the power they probably don't have in their real lives.

The major idea of this and all the previous games of the series is drastically different from Diablo's creed: whereas in the latter the setting is effectively reduced to a handful of cities with no more than 30 inhabitants in all of them, whose only purpose in life is to repair the character's broken sword or sell him a couple of potions, the world of The Elder Scrolls (called Tamriel) seems to be even better and more detailed than the real one.

I'm not entirely sure when «living room» came to mean «room where we watch television», but that seems to be the purpose of most living rooms in most homes.

With that said, there doesn't seem to be much purpose in pouring money into a cash accumulating life insurance policy.

Having a purpose in life always seems like such a big deal.

Much like the high school teens whose life purpose seems limited by a negligent parent, no money for college, a history of substance abuse, or a learning disorder, the image of yourself based on these external ideas of possibilities can trap you in servitude to a lesser existence your entire life.