{"id":899,"date":"2005-05-21T14:39:56","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T22:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/05\/21\/thought-and-purpose\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:23:49","slug":"thought-and-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/05\/21\/thought-and-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought And Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following quote was taped on my wall for many years.  It helped me in my transition to a new life in Austin (where I moved without even a job waiting for me) and through graduate school, internship, and the credentialing exam.  I was rummaging through old folders and found it.  Perhaps it is time for a renewal of purpose.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.  A woman should conceive of a legitimate purpose in her heart, and set out to accomplish it.  It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object&#8230;; but whichever it is, she should steadily focus her thought-forces upon the object which she has set out before her.  She should make this purpose her supreme duty, and should devote herself to its attainment, not allowing her thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings.  Even if she fails again and again to accomplish her purpose&#8230;, the <em>strength of character gained<\/em> will be the measure of her <em>true<\/em> success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Dorothy J. Hulst<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following quote was taped on my wall for many years. It helped me in my transition to a new life in Austin (where I moved without even a job waiting for me) and through graduate school, internship, and the credentialing exam. I was rummaging through old folders and found it. Perhaps it is time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10855,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/10855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}