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Happiness is not the end of life: character is. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. -- Thomas Huxley
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. -- Thomas Huxley
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. -- William Penn
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course. -- Watchman Nee
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. -- George Leigh Mallory
At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose? -- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms. -- Mary Oliver
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us. -- Frederick Leboyer
God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across. -- William Booth
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life -- Paul Auster
At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. -- Mary Oliver
Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories. -- Tom Rachman
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. -- Margaret Mead
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters. -- Stedman Graham
A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design! -- Neil Tierney
You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate. -- Robert Breault
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life. -- Plato
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. -- David Searls
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. -- Socrates
Failure is not the end of life. It is the beginning of a greater success, if thy will persist. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it. -- Cassandra Clare
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves. -- John Tillotson
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman. -- Chavela Vargas
True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. -- David O. McKay
Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding. -- Rajneesh
Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times. -- R.D. Ronald
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When we fail, we think that is the end of life. Actually, it is the beginning of a greater life when we persistently preserved. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die. -- Victor Hugo
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life. -- John C. Danforth
The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things. -- Socrates
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well. -- Morrie Schwartz
Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends? -- Will Smith
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole. -- Aubrey de Grey
We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing. -- Erykah Badu
A solicitor had looked up at the sky, swept blue by the wind, and had a sudden sense of religious consolation, a feeling that this life cannot possibly be all, and that it is not possible for consciousness to end with the end of life. -- John Lanchester
The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation. -- Marianne Williamson
At the end of life, your reward in heaven will not be proportional to the role you played on earth, but how faithful you played it. Be faithful in every little role you are to play; it'll lead you to a greater reward! Faithfulness is key! -- Israelmore Ayivor
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies. -- Orson Scott Card
You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family. -- Chuck Grassley
The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death. -- Geoff Mulgan
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care. -- Bill Nelson
My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. -- Cheryl Strayed
The death of the forest is the end of our life. -- Dorothy Stang
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon. -- Jenny Weber
The end of a picture is always an end of a life. -- Sam Peckinpah
I will see this game of life out to its bitter end. -- Zane Grey
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. -- Minna Antrim
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. -- Robert Kennedy
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways. -- Alexander Volkov
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended. -- Jerry Saltz
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. -- Robert Capa
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life. -- Federico Fellini
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end. -- John Webster
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. -- Drew Barrymore
Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final. -- Brian Tracy
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? -- Don DeLillo
For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early. -- Alexa Von Tobel
The life of "peace" is both an inner journey toward a disarmed heart and a public journey toward a disarmed world. This difficult but beautiful journey gives infinite meaning and fulfillment to life itself because our lives become a gift for the whole human race. With peace as the beginning, middle, and end of life, life makes sense. -- John Dear
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in. -- Mother Teresa
Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives. -- Bruce C. Hafen
In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways. -- Robert Muller
I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life...I...believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written. -- Steve Saint
Life doesn't end at 30. -- Jeanne Moreau
Let valour end my life! -- Walter Raleigh
Life is a dead-end street. -- H. L. Mencken
Life has to end. Love doesn't. -- Mitch Albom
Life has to end, love doesn't. -- Mitch Albom
Life has no beginning, middle or end. -- Marguerite Young
Life never end when you are in it. -- Daniel Handler
The end of a life is always vivifying. -- Samuel Beckett
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. -- Steve Martin
Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. -- Danny Orton
Friendship cant end just because you change your life. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
It was a tragic end to a heroic life. -- Chris Kyle
I think life is precious from beginning to end. -- Jeb Bush
Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end. -- Ernie J Zelinski
There is really no end to life's little humiliations. -- Lev Grossman
In the end, life makes victims of us all. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Praise day at night, and life at the end. -- George Herbert
Life has a higher end, than to be amused. -- William Ellery Channing
Life has a higher end, than to be amused -- William Ellery Channing
When you die it's the end of your life. -- Sam Shepard
Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship. -- Robert Anderson
Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope. -- Dr. Seuss
Live each day as if life can end any time. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
life will come to an end one moment in time. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death. -- Wilfred Bion
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship. -- Hal Holbrook
Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period. -- Lois Gould
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty. -- Grace Paley
There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking. -- Orrin Woodward
Most journeys in life rarely end up where we originally intended. -- Ken Poirot
Live a passionate life. Life can end any time, any day. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end. -- Daniel C. Tomas
Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it. -- Joy Bryant
Life death all does end and each day dies with sleep. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
The end of reading is not more books but more life. -- Holbrook Jackson
At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die. -- Bret McKenzie
The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end. -- Joanne Harris
When life comes to an end, we will take nothing with us. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end. -- Marcelene Cox
Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going. -- Martha Beck
Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps. -- Jami Attenberg
Basketball Rule #4If you missenough of life'sfree throwsyou will payin the end. -- Kwame Alexander
Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail. -- Katy Butler

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