What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. Albert Einstein

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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw

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I find life an exciting business - and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller

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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. Warren Buffett

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You cannot lose another life than the one you're living now, or live another one than the one you're losing. Marcus Aurelius

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For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream. Seneca

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. Margaret Young

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• life

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West

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Life is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You get better at this game through practice. The game consists of a series of choices that have consequences. You can't stop the problems and choices from coming at you, so it's better to learn how to deal with them. Ray Dalio

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. John Lennon

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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

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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Pablo Picasso

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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. François-René de Chateaubriand

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The secret of happiness is in knowing this: that we live by the law of expenditure. We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. There are tides in the ocean of life, and what comes in depends on what goes out. The currents flow inward only where there is an outlet. Nature does not give to those who will not spend; her gifts are loaned to those who will use them. Empty your lungs and breathe. Run, climb, work, and laugh; the more you give out, the more you shall receive. Be exhausted, and you shall be fed. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. Raymond Baughan

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