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«The goal of all life is death.»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | About: Death and dying, Goals, Life | Keywords: The Goal
«The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.»
«The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.»
«The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge»
«The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Life | Keywords: rush, stream, The Angels, visit
«The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.»
«The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.»
«The great end of life is not knowledge but action.»
Author: Aldous Huxley (Critic, Novelist) | About: Action, Knowledge, Life | Keywords: end of life
«The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction»
«The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.»