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Robert Byrne (top)
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne


Alan Coren (top)
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
- Alan Coren


José Ortega y Gasset (top)
An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
- José Ortega y Gasset


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (top)
A useless life is an early death.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Washington Irving (top)
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
- Washington Irving


Walter Savage Landor (top)
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
- Walter Savage Landor


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (top)
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Chinese Proverb (top)
If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him.
- Chinese Proverb


Lucius Annaeus Seneca (top)
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca


George Bernard Shaw (top)
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
- George Bernard Shaw
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
- George Bernard Shaw