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Letter "L" » Life
«The goal of all life is death.»
«The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Life,
Love
| Keywords:
conviction, greatest, happiness, loved, rather, spite, The Greatest
«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»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
Good Life, guided, inspired, knowledge, The Good Life, The Guide
«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.»
«The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
alter, altering, attitude, discovery, Discovery of, generation, human being
«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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
conceive, Good Life, Happy Life, The Good Life
«The great end of life is not knowledge but action.»
«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»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
curse, cut to, destruction, Dionysus, eternally, pieces, reborn, redemption, signpost, signposts, The cross, The God
«The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
giver, givers, life-giving, The Giver, wretchedness
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