Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
-Dalai Lama
Quotations
Life
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson "R. L. Stevenson"
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
-Jean Paul Sartre
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
-Emily Dickinson
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon
What most counts is not to live, but to live right.
-Socrates
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
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
