Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi No eternal reward will forgive us now
For wasting the dawn.
Jim morrison
From The Wasp.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didnt get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Author Unknown
Sometimes attributed to Buddha, but this is disputed.
I believe that the very purpose of life is to seek happiness.
Dalai Lama
The Art of Happiness.
From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax, to be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne 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
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.
Russell Schweikart, astronaut To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.
Stephen MacKenna
We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder.
Paul Vitale Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving I would rather be ashes than dust; I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brillant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot; I would rather be in a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow than in a sleepy and permanent planet; the proper function of man is to live, not to exist; I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them; I shall USE my time.
Jack London To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Alan Coren
The Sanity Inspector.
How to gain, how to keep, and how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive for all they do.
William James In men whom men condemn as ill,
I find so much of goodness still,
In men whom men pronounce divine,
I find so much of sin and blot,
I do not dare to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.
Joaquin Miller
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Saying The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.
Max Ehrmann
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Joan Borysenko Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Elliot We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
John Ruskin Life is a promise; fulfill it.
Mother Theresa
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose
Richard Leider
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
Lin Yutang Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
You are what your deep driving desire is; As your deep driving desire is, so is your will; As your will is so is your deed; As your deed is so is your destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice.
Each small task of everyday is part of the total harmony of the universe.
St. Theresa of Lisieux Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
Martin Luther King
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Paul Valery
Henry David Thoreau The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friederich Nietzsche Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcom Forbes
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward Phelps
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
Pindar However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
Peter Quennell
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. Lawrence
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
E.R. Beadle Success is never final.
Winston Churchill
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.
Donald Harington
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings.
Immanuel Kant It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.
Bertrand Russell
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
Blaise Pascal Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Buddinton Kelland It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Dr Robert Schuller So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Confucius Such as we are made of, such we be.
William Shakespeare You only live once- but if you work it right, once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
We teach what we live.
Author unknown
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.
T.S. Elliot In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on!
Leo Buscaglia
It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one, and not deserve it!
Mark Twain
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