T. D. Jakes Quotes
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The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could talk about, it becomes too much.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.
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The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for photo ops.
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It's important to bring things back from the Space Station because, unlike somebody living at the house where the garbage truck comes by twice a week, they don't have that in space.
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This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.
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I'm honestly flattered and humbled that anyone would show interest in something I've done, forever.
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The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.