(1843 quotes found)
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”
Aristotle
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”
Albert Einstein
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts”
Voltaire
“To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”
Oscar Wilde
“Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.”
Anthony Robbins
“The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.”
George Bernard Shaw
“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.”
Tracy Kidder
“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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