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#1

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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#2

“His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, Or, There And Back Again

tags: fantasy, smaug, tolkien

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#3

“Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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#4

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: loneliness

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#5

“Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#6

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life

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#7

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life

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#8

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life

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#9

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work

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#10

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

tags: employment, life, purpose-of-life, time, usefulness, waste

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#11

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: fearless, greatness, inspirational, life, motivational, purpose-of-life, self-empowerment, success

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#12

“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

tags: make-a-difference, purpose-of-life

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#13

“Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

tags: life-purpose, meaning-of-life, my-purpose, purpose, purpose-of-life, your-purpose, your-purpose-in-life

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#14

“Sooner or later, at some point in your life, you’ll realize that money isn’t everything. Nor is happiness. No! We are not here to be happy. The aim of our life should be fulfilment. More than happiness, man seeks meaning. And when he finds it, his life becomes fulfilling.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

tags: aim, fulfillment, goals, happiness, life, philosophical, philosophy, purpose, purpose-of-life

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#15

“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.”
― Pliny the Elder

tags: better, glory, happier, meaning-of-life, purpose-of-life, world

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#16

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#17

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#18

“I was too tired to eat, too hungry to sleep. With the paradox, both sleeping and eating left the category of pleasure where I'd always put them and became duties on this crazy job I'd somehow got into.”
― Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection

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#19

“Make your enemies by choice, he muttered, not by accident.”
― Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

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