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The aims of life are the best defense against death. -- Primo Levi
But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. -- Hubert Selby, Jr.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -- Henry Miller
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. -- Jack London
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. -- Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born. -- Erich Fromm
Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take. -- David Simon
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life. -- Oscar Wilde
No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere. -- Jacques Ellul
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below -- Bhagat Singh
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty! -- Victor Hugo
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. -- Margaret Fuller
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine. -- Joseph Campbell
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all. -- Jack London
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world. -- George Santayana
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it. -- Dalai Lama
Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities. -- Boris Sidis
The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job. -- Nirmala Srivastava
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one. -- Yehudi Menuhin
The aim of living is life itself. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My aim in life is not to judge. -- Jeanne Moreau
My aim in life is never to be skinny. -- Adele
Business is not the aim of life; it's a game. -- Suleyman Kerimov
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy. -- Karl Liebknecht
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
You have great talents. Aim for God best for your life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. -- Nathan Deal
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim. -- Benjamin E. Mays
A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart. -- J. R. Ackerley
Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care -- Napoleon Hill
We must not only aim to make a living but to live life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. -- Oswald Chambers
That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline. -- Henry David Thoreau
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. -- Epicurus
But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. -- Hubert Selby, Jr.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means. -- William Faulkner
My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit. -- Charles Saatchi
Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully. -- Ruth Gordon
I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life. -- John Carpenter
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. -- Aristotle
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. -- Seraphim of Sarov
Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life. -- Elinor Glyn
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. -- Jean Anouilh
To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life. -- Llewellyn Powers
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! -- Robert Browning
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life. -- Maria Montessori
Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. -- John D. Rockefeller
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything. -- Jack Kornfield
Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. -- Les Brown
It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater. -- Anton Chekhov
My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others. -- John Wesley
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life. -- Dallas Willard
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life. -- Gautama Buddha
A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. -- William J. Mayo
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. -- William J. Mayo
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. -- Victor Hugo
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. -- Napoleon Hill
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life. -- Frances Perkins
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? -- Charles M. Schulz
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -- Henry David Thoreau
If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life. -- Eugene Burger
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate... -- Clay Shirky
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace. -- William Barclay
It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly. -- George Crook
Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God. -- Anne Graham Lotz
The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful. -- Yehudi Menuhin
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment. -- Immanuel Kant
Don't let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life. -- Gary W. Keller
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone. -- W. Edwards Deming
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. -- Saul Alinsky
The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination. -- Darren Hardy
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem. -- Albert Einstein
Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go! -- Henry Van Dyke
Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art. -- Gage Taylor
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built. -- Bertrand Russell
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. -- Brooks Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. -- Henry Adams
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. -- Henry Adams
To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at. -- P.B. Kerr
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. -- Logan Pearsall Smith

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