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There is an aphorism according to which a man who has a great mind cannot be considered ugly. We do not undertake to judge the physical attractiveness of the representatives of the stronger sex, whose quotes are presented below, however, the fact that they largely influenced the further development of mankind is not in doubt. All of them have earned the right to enter the category of great men, and their wise quotes have undoubtedly enriched philosophical ideas about life. Our selection of quotes from great men includes phrases from Bruce Lee and Charlie Chaplin, Andrei Sakharov and Sergei Korolev, Albert Einstein and Henry Ford, John Lennon and Ernest Hemingway, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Each of them has made a significant contribution to the development of their industry. And their actions and thoughts significantly influenced the formation of public opinion and the development of mankind as a whole. In varying degrees and areas, of course. Therefore, selected quotes from great men who have transformed this world can also transform your attitude.

Henry Ford

Quality is doing something right, even when no one is watching.

Ideas are valuable in themselves, but every idea is, after all, just an idea. The challenge is to put it into practice.

If you have enthusiasm, you can do anything. Enthusiasm is the basis of any progress.

Defeat is just an opportunity to start over, and this time more intelligently.

It seems that everyone was looking for the shortest road to money and at the same time bypassed the most direct one - the one that leads through work.

It is impossible to create a reputation for yourself only with intentions.

If there is any secret to success, it lies in the ability to take another person's point of view and see things from their point of view as well as from your own.

A charitable organization that does not set itself the goal of becoming redundant in the future does not fulfill its true purpose. She's just getting content for herself.

Each one should be placed in such a way that the scale of his life is in due proportion to the services he renders to society.

Put work for the common good above profit.

Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live life. The first is that miracles do not exist. The second - as if there were only miracles around.

A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself.

It is impossible to solve the problem at the same level at which it arose. You need to rise above this problem by rising to the next level.

The world cannot be held by force. It can only be reached by understanding.

Each person is obliged, at least, to return to the world as much as he took from it.

You will never solve a problem if you think in the same way as those who created it.

Everyone knows it's impossible. But here comes an ignoramus who does not know this, and he makes a discovery.

Anyone who wants to see the results of his work immediately should become a shoemaker.

If you want to lead a happy life, you must be attached to a goal, not to people or things.

I don't know what weapons will be used in World War 3, but in World War 4 they will be fought with sticks and stones.

Charlie Chaplin

Comedy is a serious subject, although it shouldn't be taken seriously. This sounds like a paradox, but it is not. Understanding your characters, preparing for filming is serious, hard work. But for a comedy to be truly successful, every actor needs lightness, spontaneity.

I don't think I deserved dinner if I didn't dedicate the day to work.

Thanks to humor, we see the irrational in the rational, the irrelevant in the important, humor helps us survive and maintain our sanity.

The secret is to believe in yourself.

Imagination means nothing if the one who is endowed with it is inactive.

We laugh, feeling helpless before the forces of nature, because otherwise we would go crazy.

Life will seem like a tragedy if you shoot it close-up, but from the general plan it is, of course, a comedy.

It doesn't matter where you live, it matters who you live with. Your naked body should belong to someone who loves your naked soul.

The ability to think, like playing the violin or the piano, requires daily practice.

For the sake of art, you can appear on the stage and naked, but you need to return from there not only dressed, but also cleaner.

Bill Gates

Don't compare yourself to anyone. This is offensive to you in the first place.

Money quickly reveals its impotence as soon as a person's desires touch the field of feelings.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into believing they can never lose.

Luck tends to favor those who start out small and then grow with experience.

When one smart person joins the company, another soon appears - talented people like to work in a circle of equals.

I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it.

Enjoy what you do and you will never work in your life.

Life is unfair - get used to this fact.

Stop acting like you have 500 years left to live.

Not all dreams come true. For example, in my childhood I dreamed of becoming a cook, but it did not work out.

John Lennon

God is the measure by which we measure our pain.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

The more I see, the less I know.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

Our society is a pursuit of insane people for insane goals.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

If anyone thinks that love and peace are clichés that should have been left behind in the sixties, then that's their problem. Love and peace are eternal.

All you need is Love.

When you have six feet of ground above you, everyone loves you.

Talent is the ability to believe in success. Complete nonsense when they say that I suddenly discovered a talent in myself. I just worked.

Sergei Korolev

There are no barriers to human thought.

If you did it quickly and badly, everyone will forget what was fast, but for a long time they will remember what is bad. And vice versa, they will soon forget what they did for a long time, and they will never forget what they did well.

Criticize someone else's, offer your own. Suggesting - do it.

Who wants to work - looking for funds, who does not want - reasons.

Order frees thought.

A person who believes in a fairy tale falls into it one day because he has a heart...

A rocket under water is absurd. But that's why I'm going to do it.

Astronautics has a limitless future, and its prospects are as endless as the Universe itself.

The whole meaning of my life was one thing - to break through to the stars.

The road to the stars is open.

Bruce Lee

Be gentle, but not submissive. Be firm, but not cruel.

Only those who do will learn something!

The teacher does not reveal the truth, he is the conductor of the truth, which each student must discover for himself. A good teacher is just a catalyst.

Defeat is not defeat unless you recognize it as such in your mind.

Mistakes are always forgiven if one has the courage to admit them.

To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.

Truth has no way. The truth is alive, therefore, changeable.

Simplicity is the highest level of art.

Don't ask for an easy life. Ask for strength to deal with the difficult.

It doesn't matter how slowly you progress, the main thing is that you don't stop.

Ernest Hemingway

If you can render even a small service in life, do not shy away from it.

When something ends in life, be it good or bad, there is a void left. But the void left after the bad is filled by itself. The void after the good can only be filled by finding something better...

War, however necessary and just, is always a crime.

All people in the world are divided into two categories. With the first it is easy, as it is easy without them. With the latter it is very difficult, but it is impossible to live without them at all.

A man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated...

Every person is born for some work.

Happiness is the most wonderful thing in the world, and for those who know how to be happy, it can be as deep as sadness.

Life is generally a tragedy, the outcome of which is a foregone conclusion.

We get stronger where we break.

Not only answers become obsolete, but also questions.

Steve Jobs

Most often, people do not understand what they really need until you show it to them yourself.

We are here to contribute to this world. Why else are we here?

We don't have a chance to do many things that can be called great. Because this is our life. Life is short and you are dying. Do you know it?

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

The only way to do great things is to love what you do.

There is only one way to do great work - to love her. If you don't get there, wait. Don't get down to business. As with everything else, your own heart will help you to suggest an interesting business.

When you're young and you watch TV, you think the TV companies conspired to make people dumb. But then you grow up and understanding comes: people themselves want this. And that's a much more frightening thought. Conspiracy is not scary. You can shoot the bastards, start a revolution! But there is no conspiracy, TV companies are just satisfying the demand. Unfortunately it's true.

Nobody wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die.

For the last 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: If today is the last day of my life, will I do what I have planned for today?

I don't want to be the richest man in the graveyard.

Andrey Sakharov

A nuclear war cannot be won.

Progress is inevitable, its cessation would mean the death of civilization.

The disunity of humanity threatens it with death.

Human society needs intellectual freedom - freedom to receive and disseminate information, freedom of unbiased and fearless discussion, freedom from the pressure of authority and prejudices.

I deny any significant deterrent effect of the death penalty on would-be criminals. I am sure of the opposite - cruelty breeds cruelty.

Progress is possible and safe only under the control of the mind.

Every rational being, finding itself on the edge of the abyss, first tries to move away from this edge, and only then thinks about satisfying all other needs. For humanity to move away from the edge of the abyss means to overcome disunity.

It is better to release a certain number of people who are guilty of something than to keep thousands of innocent people imprisoned and tortured.

Human life is like a box of matches. Taking her seriously is ridiculous. Being careless is dangerous.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Every life creates its own destiny.
A. Amiel

The life of most people is like a vague, incoherent dream, like the dreams of a half-asleep. We sober up only when life ends.
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The life of people who seek only pleasure is, in essence, nothing more than a prolonged suicide; they are certainly trying to justify Seneca's saying: we don't get life short, but we make it so.
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To live is to make things, not to acquire them.
Aristotle

Life without a goal is a man without a head.
Assir.

All life will fly by like a crazy wind,
You can't stop her at any cost.
Y. Balasaguni

Life is an alternation of all sorts of combinations, they need to be studied, monitored in order to remain in an advantageous position everywhere.
O. Balzac

Strong life shocks heal from small fears.
O. Balzac

A man is amazingly arranged - he is upset when he loses wealth, and is indifferent to the fact that the days of his life are irretrievably gone.
G. Bar-Ebraya

To live is the same as to love: the mind is against it, a healthy instinct is for it.
S. Butler

To live in society, to bear the heavy yoke of positions, often insignificant and vain, and to want to reconcile the benefits of self-love with the desire for fame - is a truly vain demand.
K. Batyushkov

It's not about how long we live, but how.
N. Bailey

Perishes in the stream of time only that which is devoid of a strong grain of life and which, therefore, is not worth living.
V. Belinsky

Life is a trap and we are mice; others manage to break the bait and get out of the trap, but most of them die in it, and the bait can only be smelled. Silly comedy, damn it.
V. Belinsky

To live means to feel and think, to suffer and be blissful, any other life is death.
V. Belinsky

Many people live without living, but only intending to live.
V. Belinsky

To find one's own path, to know one's place - this is everything for a person, it means for him to become himself.
V. Belinsky

“It is beautiful to live” is not just an empty sound.
Only the one who multiplied beauty in the world
Labor, struggle - he lived his life beautifully,
Truly crowned with beauty!
I. Becher

It is worth living only in such a way as to make immeasurable demands on life.
A. Blok

A person's real life begins at the age of fifty. During these years, a person masters what true achievements are based on, acquires what can be given to others, learns what can be taught, clears what can be built on.
E. Bock

Man does not live by bread alone. Making money, accumulating material power - that's not all. Life is something more, and a person who does not notice this truth is deprived of the greatest joy and pleasure available to a person in this life - service to other people.
E. Bock

To live is to fight, to fight is to live.
P. Beaumarchais

We cripple life with our follies and vices, and then complain about the misfortunes that followed them, and say that misfortune is inherent in the very nature of things.
C. Bowie

The first thing you know in life is that you are a fool. The last thing you know is that you're still the same fool.
R. Bradbury

Anyone who lives for the sake of others - for the sake of his country, for the sake of a woman, for the sake of creativity, for the sake of the starving or persecuted - as if by magic, forgets his anguish and petty everyday troubles.
A. Morua

Life is a battle, and we must prepare for it from childhood.
A. Morua

Life is not a holiday, not a chain of pleasures, but work, in which sometimes there is a lot of sorrow and a lot of doubts.
S. Nadson

Changing every moment your whimsical image,
Capricious, like a child, and ghostly, like smoke,
Life boils everywhere in a fussy anxiety,
Great mixed with the insignificant and ridiculous.
S. Nadson

Anyone who makes an attempt to live life to the fullest, to live in order to feel life, is doomed to be misunderstood and suffer constant disappointment in their relationships with other people.
R. Aldington

Live and make mistakes. This is life. Don't think that you can be perfect - that's impossible. Temper yourself, your character, so that when the test comes - and this is inevitable - you could deceive yourself with common truths and loud phrases ...
R. Aldington

Life is a wonderful adventure, worthy of enduring failures for the sake of success.
R. Aldington

A turbulent life is tempting for remarkable minds, mediocrities find no consolation in it: in all their actions they are like machines.
B. Pascal

This is how all life goes: they seek peace, fearing to struggle against several obstacles; and when these obstacles are removed, peace becomes unbearable.
B. Pascal

Life is constant work, and only he understands it in a completely human way who looks at it from this point of view.
D. Pisarev

A long life with a healthy consciousness allows you to look at yourself from the outside and marvel at the changes in yourself.
M. Prishvin

Life itself is short, but when it is unhappy, it seems long.
Publius Cyrus

Those who are only going to live all their lives live poorly.
Publius Cyrus

Only those who do not know the difference between "mine" and "yours" have a calm life.
Publius Cyrus

A gift in vain, a gift random,
Life, why are you given to me?
A. Pushkin

I want to live in order to think and suffer.
A. Pushkin

Life is an art in which people often remain amateurs. To live, one must shed a lot of the blood of one's heart.
Carmen Silva

Human life is like iron. If you use it in business, it is erased; if not used, rust will eat it.
Cato the Elder

I don't live to eat, I eat to live.
Quintilian

The most beautiful life is a life lived for other people.
X. Keller

Life is not about living, but about feeling that you are living.
V. Klyuchevsky

Life teaches only those who study it.
V. Klyuchevsky

Prosperity, misfortune, poverty, wealth, joy, sadness, poverty, contentment are different phenomena of one historical drama in which people rehearse their roles for the edification of the world.
Kozma Prutkov

Our life can be conveniently compared with a capricious river, on the surface of which a boat floats, sometimes rocked by a quiet streaming wave, often delayed in its movement by a shallow and broken on an underwater stone. Is it necessary to mention that this fragile boat in the market of fleeting time is none other than man himself?
Kozma Prutkov

The tasks given to us by life are not answered in the end.
Kozma Prutkov

There are three ways for a person to act wisely: the first, the most noble, is reflection; the second, the easiest, is imitation; the third, the most bitter, is experience.
Confucius

In the school of life, underachievers are not left for a second course.
E. Meek

Life is a school, but one should not rush to finish it.
E. Meek

You have to live in such a way that you want to repeat.
B. Krutier

Whoever can fill every moment with deep content, infinitely prolongs his life.
I. Kuri

Most people spend most of their lives making the other half miserable.
J. La Bruyère

Life is a tragedy for the one who feels, and a comedy for the one who thinks.
J. La Bruyère

Life is what people strive to preserve most of all and cherish least of all.
J. La Bruyère

A man must use the first part of his life to converse with the dead (read books); the second to talk to the living; the third is to talk to yourself.
P. Buast

Only participation in the existence of other living beings reveals the meaning and foundation of one's own existence.
M. Buber

... It is easy to live for someone who is impudent, like a crow, impudent, obsessive, reckless, spoiled. But it is difficult to live for someone who is modest, who is always looking for the pure, who is impartial, cold-blooded, perspicacious, whose life is pure.
Buddha

A life worthy of its name is a dedication to the good of others.
B. Washington

One must enter into life not as a cheerful reveler, as into a pleasant grove, but with reverent awe, as into a sacred forest full of mystery.
V. Veresaev

Life is not a burden, and if someone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.
V. Veresaev

Life is the most interesting adventure that people are given to experience.
J. Bern

To live means not only to satisfy the material needs of the organism, but, mainly, to be aware of one's human dignity.
J Bern

To live means to burn oneself with the fire of struggle, searching and anxiety.
E. Verharn

Life is what people receive without expressing gratitude, use it without hesitation, pass it on to others in unconsciousness and lose it without noticing it.
Voltaire

I still love life. This absurd weakness is perhaps one of our most fatal shortcomings: after all, nothing can be more stupid than the desire to constantly carry a burden that you want to throw down on the ground, to be horrified by your existence and drag it out.
Voltaire

From any road you turn back,
And only the road of life is irrevocable.
R. Gamzatov

Life is an almost continuous chain of one's own discoveries.
G. Hauptman

It is impossible to make up for anything in life - everyone should learn this truth as early as possible.
X. Goebbel

Life is endless improvement. To consider yourself perfect is to kill yourself.
X. Goebbel

All strong people love life.
G. Heine

Life is not in vain for people who have awakened at least some strong thought ...
A. Herzen

A life that does not leave lasting traces is erased with every step forward.
A. Herzen

Life is my natural right: I dispose of the master in it, I push my “I” into everything around me, I fight with it, opening my soul to everything, sucking it, the whole world, I melt it, as in a furnace, I am aware of the connection with humanity, with infinity .
A. Herzen

A private life that knows nothing beyond the threshold of its home, no matter how it settles down, is poor.
A. Herzen

You actually live only when you take advantage of the favor of others.
I. Goethe

Only he is worthy of life and freedom,
Who goes to battle for them every day.
I. Goethe

Life and activity are as closely connected with each other as flame and light. What burns, it truly shines, what lives, then, of course, acts.
F. Glinka

Life cannot be so hard that it cannot be made easier by one's attitude towards it.
E. Glasgow

Whoever wants to live his life honestly must bear in mind in his youth that someday he will be an old man, and in old age remember that he too was once young.
N. Gogol

It is impossible to live in the world without sacrifices, without efforts and hardships: life is not a garden in which only flowers grow.
I. Goncharov

Life is a struggle, in the struggle is happiness.
I. Goncharov

Life “for oneself and to oneself” is not life, but a passive state: one needs a word and a deed, a struggle.
I. Goncharov

Life does not give anything without hard work and unrest.
Horace

Whoever delays in ordering his life is like that simpleton who waits by the river when it carries its waters.
Horace

There are only two forms of life: rotting and burning. Cowardly and greedy will choose the first, courageous and generous - the second.
M. Gorky

Life goes on: who does not keep up with it, he remains lonely.
M. Gorky

Life is arranged so devilishly skillfully that, without knowing how to hate, it is impossible to sincerely love.
M. Gorky

Human life is ridiculously short. How to live? Some stubbornly avoid life, others devote themselves entirely to it. The first on the slope of days will be poor in spirit and memories, others will be rich in both.
M. Gorky

The life of mankind is creativity, the desire for victory over the resistance of dead matter, the desire to master all its secrets and force its forces to serve the will of people for their happiness.
M. Gorky

It is not true that life is gloomy, it is not true that it contains only ulcers and groans, grief and tears!.. It contains everything that a person wants to find, and he has the strength to create what is not in it.
M. Gorky

Life is fuller and more interesting when a person struggles with what prevents him from living.
M. Gorky

Real life is not much different from a good fantasy tale, if viewed from the inside, from the side of desires and motives that guide a person in his activities.
M. Gorky

A person must do something all his life - all his life.
M. Gorky

A person who does not know what he will do tomorrow is unhappy.
M. Gorky

To live, one must be able to do something.
M. Gorky

Life has little to teach one who has not learned to endure suffering.
A. Graf

Life is a heavy duty feat, and not pleasure and a path to personal happiness.
N. Grotto

I don't know what our fate is ahead,
But here our fate is visible:
We go out with life one on one,
And she wins us.
I. Huberman

Life has a melody, a motive,
Harmony of plots and tonality,
A rainbow of random prospects
Sheltered in a monotonous reality.
I. Huberman

Among the influences that shorten life, fear, sadness, despondency, melancholy, cowardice, envy, and hatred occupy a predominant place.
X. Hufeland

Do not bow to anyone and do not expect that they will come to bow to you - this is a joyful life, a golden age, the natural state of man!
J. La Bruyère

The greatest of books is the book of life, which can neither be closed nor reopened at will.
A. Lamartine

It is impossible to live in society and be free from society.
V. Lenin

Life advances in contradictions, and living contradictions are many times richer, more versatile, more meaningful than it seems to the human mind at first.
V. Lenin

To change, remaining, or to continue, changing - this is what truly constitutes the normal life of a person.
P. Leroux

Life is like the ocean
And we are all just fishermen:
We dream to fish out a whale,
And we get cod tail.
F. Logau

There should be some rainy weather in every life.
G. Longfellow

Life reaches its peaks in those moments when all its forces are directed towards the implementation of the goals set for it.
D. London

It's not enough for me to live. I still want to understand what life is.
A. Losev

Life is not given to anyone in property, but only to.
Lucretius

We must live with spread wings.
S. McKay

Attaching one good deed to another so closely that there is no gap between them is what I call enjoying life.
Marcus Aurelius

The first half of life consists of the ability to take pleasure in the absence of opportunities; the other half consists of opportunities in the absence of ability.
Mark Twain

The events of our lives are mostly small events, they only seem big when we stand close to them.
Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a slumbering conscience - this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

The more insignificant your being, the less you manifest your life, the greater your possessions, the greater your alienated life...
K. Marx

Some love life for what it is given, others for what it gives.
G. Matyushov

Life is divided into two eras: the era of desires and the era of aversion.
G. Mechan

If you learn to live
Menander

How sweet it is to live when you live with whom you want!
Menander

Life is not an easy task, and the first hundred years are the most difficult.
W. Mizner

Life in itself is neither good nor evil: it is a receptacle for both good and evil, depending on what we ourselves have turned it into.
M. Montaigne

Everyone lives well or badly, depending on what he himself thinks about it. Satisfied is not the one whom others think is content, but the one who considers himself to be such.
M. Montaigne

The measure of life is not in its duration, but in how you use it.
M. Montaigne

We learn to live when life has already been lived.
M. Montaigne

Life is a mountain: you go up slowly, you go down quickly.
G. Maupassant

Take a look - the real life is right next to you. She is in flowers on the lawn; in a lizard basking in the sun on your balcony; in children who look tenderly at their mother; in kissing lovers; in all these houses where people try to work, love, have fun. There is nothing more important than these modest destinies.
A. Morua

Life requires a faithful eye and a steady hand. Life is not tears, not sighs, but a struggle, and a terrible struggle ...
V. Rozanov

Terrible emptiness of life. Oh how terrible she is...
V. Rozanov

Life is harsh, but for a person with a strong spirit, it is beautiful and interesting, despite all the difficulties.
R. Rollan

It is not at all reprehensible to extract from one's craft the means of life, even for a "respectable" life, but one must at least try to make these benefits and this craft serve the society.
R. Rollan

To live means to fight, and not only for life, but also for the fullness and improvement of life.
I. Rubakin

Life lasts only a moment; in itself it is nothing; its value depends on what has been done... Only the good done by a person remains, and thanks to him life is worth something.
J. J. Rousseau

We care most about life as it loses its value; old people regret it more than young people.
J. J. Rousseau

Not the person who lived the most who can count more than a hundred years, but the one who felt life the most.
J. J. Rousseau

Life itself means nothing; its price depends on its use.
J. J. Rousseau

They don't live twice, and there are many who don't know how to live once.
F. Ruckert

Life is not a spectacle and not a holiday; life is hard work.
D. Santayana

Living in limbo is the most miserable existence: that is the life of a spider.
D. Swift

Life is happy if it is consistently based on correct, intelligent judgment. Then the spirit of man is clear; he is free from all kinds of bad influences, freed not only from torments, but also from small pricks: he is always ready to hold the position he has occupied and defend it, despite the fierce blows of fate.
Seneca the Younger

Life, not sanctified by a sense of duty, would have, in essence, no value.
S. Smiles

The ship of life yields to all winds and storms if it does not have labor ballast.
Stendhal

There are moments in life when the smallest troubles take on the dimensions of catastrophes in our eyes.
E. Souvestre

The main rule in life is nothing beyond measure.
Terenty

Life is not suffering and not pleasure, but a matter that we must do and honestly bring it to the end.
A. Tocqueville

You can hate life only because of apathy and laziness.
L. Tolstoy

All life is only an aspiration and a gradual approach to perfection, which is unattainable, because it is perfection.
L. Tolstoy

If life does not seem to you a great joy, it is only because your mind is misdirected.
L. Tolstoy

The man has ruined his stomach and complains about dinner. The same is true of people who are dissatisfied with life. We have no right to be dissatisfied with this life. If it seems to us that we are dissatisfied with her, then this only means that we have reason to be dissatisfied with ourselves.
L. Tolstoy

A man who knows his life is like a slave who suddenly finds out that he is a king.
L. Tolstoy

In order to live honestly, one must tear, get confused, fight, make mistakes, start and quit, and start again ... And peace is spiritual meanness ...
L. Tolstoy

The life of the spirit is higher than the life of the flesh and independent of it. Often in a warm body there is a stiffened spirit, and in a fat body - a skinny and frail spirit. What do all the riches of the world mean to us when we are poor in spirit?
G. Toro

Life is nothing but a contradiction constantly conquered.
I. Turgenev

Our life contains only two tragedies. The first is that you cannot satisfy your desires, the second is when they are all satisfied. The latter is much worse than the former, and in it lies the real tragedy of life.
O. Wilde

By the time we understand what our place in life is, what definition we have given ourselves, it is too late to get out of the usual rut.
R. Warren

An existence devoid of needs is an unnecessary existence.
L. Feuerbach

The basis of life is the basis for morality. Where, from hunger, from poverty, you do not have any material in your body, there is no basis and material for morality in your head, in your heart and in your feelings.
L. Feuerbach

Life in ignorance is not life. He who lives in ignorance only breathes. Knowledge and life are inseparable.
L. Feuchtwanger

Life is a constant process of rebirth. The tragedy of life for most of us is that we will die before we are fully born.
E. Fromm

Life is a mirage, nevertheless be joyful,
In passion and intoxication - be joyful.
You lived for a moment - and you are no longer there,
But at least for a moment - be joyful!
O. Khayyam

Life is short, but glory can be eternal.
Cicero

To live is to think.
Cicero

A short life is given to us by nature, but the memory of a life well spent remains eternal.
Cicero

After life, only that which he acquired with his moral qualities and good deeds remains.
Cicero

Living for others means living for yourself.
P. Chaadaev

Life is so wide and many-sided that in it a person will almost always find his fill of everything, to look for what he feels a strong and true need.
N. Chernyshevsky

Life is empty and colorless only for colorless people who talk about feelings and needs, in fact not being able to have any special feelings and needs, except for the need to show off.
N. Chernyshevsky

A person can never lose the desire to improve his life.
N. Chernyshevsky

Life is always serious, but it is impossible to live always seriously.
G. Chesterton

The contemplative life is often very bleak. You need to act more, think less and not be an outside witness to your own life.
N. Chamfort

For some, life is a battle, for others it is a prayer.
I. Shevelev

Life never fits into patterns, but without patterns it is impossible to navigate life.
I. Shevelev

Life is made up of temporary gains and untimely losses.
I. Shevelev

Some burn themselves in life, others burn through life.
I. Shevelev

Sometimes, only having lived a life, a person realizes what his life purpose was.
I. Shevelev

To live only for oneself is an abuse.
W. Shakespeare

All-round life - only public.
N. Shelgunov

To live is to act with energy; life is a struggle in which one must fight bravely and honestly.
N. Shelgunov

A life well lived should be measured in deeds, not in years.
R. Sheridan

There are good reasons to be distrustful of life. She has deceived us so many times in our most cherished expectations.
L. Shestov

Everything is beautiful only as long as it does not affect us personally. Life is never beautiful: only its pictures in the purified mirror of art are beautiful.
A. Schopenhauer

Every day is a small life: every awakening and rising is a small birth; every fresh morning is a little youth; any preparation for sleep and falling asleep is a small death.
A. Schopenhauer

Life is, in essence, a state of need, and often of distress, where everyone must strive and struggle for his existence, and therefore cannot constantly assume a friendly expression.
A. Schopenhauer

The first forty years of life give us the text, and the next thirty provide commentaries on it.
A. Schopenhauer

From the point of view of youth, life is an infinitely distant future; from the point of view of old age, a very short past.
A. Schopenhauer

To go our way in the world, it is useful to take with us a great store of foresight and indulgence: the first will protect us from losses and losses, the second from disputes and quarrels.
A. Schopenhauer

Life, happy or unhappy, successful or unsuccessful, is still extremely interesting.
B. Show

The life of an individual person has meaning only to the extent that it helps to make the life of other people more beautiful and nobler.
A. Einstein

Life is short, but honest, always prefer life long, but shameful.
Epictetus

Human life is nothing but a kind of comedy in which people, putting on masks, each play their own role.
Erasmus of Rotterdam

I live in a world full of things I don't have but wish I had. Amendment, .. exist, because this is not life.

If a person's life consists of bottom only happiness, then the very first problem becomes its end.

Those who stubbornly test their life for strength, sooner or later achieve their goal - effectively end it.

Don't chase after happiness. It is like a cat - it is useless to chase after it, but as soon as you go about your business, it will come and lie peacefully on your lap.

Every day can be the first and last in life - it all depends on how you look at this question.

Each new day is like a match taken out of the box of life: you must burn it to the ground, but be careful not to burn the precious supply of the remaining days.

People keep a diary of past events, and life is a diary of future events.

Only a dog is ready to love you for what you do, and not for what others think of you.

The meaning of life is not to achieve perfection, but to tell others about this achievement.

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There is only one true law - the one that allows you to become free. Richard Bach

In the building of human happiness, friendship builds walls, and love forms a dome. (Kozma Prutkov)

For every minute you are angry, sixty seconds of happiness are lost.

Happiness has never placed a person on such a height that he does not need others. (Seneca Lucius Annaeus - the Younger).

In search of joy and happiness, a person runs away from himself, although in reality the real source of joy is in himself. (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi)

If you want to be happy - be it!

Life is love, life is sustained by love in the indivisible (for them it is a means of reproduction); in this case, love is the medial force of nature; it adjoins the last link of creation to the beginning, repeated in it, therefore, love is a self-returning force of nature - a beginningless and infinite radius in the circle of the universe. Nikolai Stankevich

I see the goal - and I do not notice the obstacles!

In order to live freely and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It's not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach

The possession of all kinds of goods is not everything. To enjoy the possession of them is what happiness consists of. (Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais)

Corruption is everywhere, talent is rare. Therefore, venality has become a weapon of mediocrity that has flooded everything.

Unhappiness can also be an accident. Happiness is not luck or grace; happiness is a virtue or merit. (Grigory Landau)

The peoples have made freedom their idol, but where on earth is a free people?

Character can manifest itself in important moments, but it is created in small things. Philips Brooks

If you work towards your goals, then those goals will work for you. Jim Rohn

Happiness is not in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do!

Don't solve the problem, look for opportunities. George Gilder

If we do not take care of our reputation, others will do it for us, and they will certainly put us in a bad light.

Basically, it doesn't matter where you live. More or less amenities - that's not the point. What matters is what we spend our lives on.

I must lose myself in activity, otherwise I will die of despair. Tennyson

There is only one undoubted happiness in life - to live for another (Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky)

Human souls, like rivers and plants, also need rain. A special rain - hope, faith and the meaning of life. If there is no rain, everything in the soul dies. Paulo Coelho

Life is beautiful when you create it yourself. Sophie Marceau

Happiness sometimes falls so unexpectedly that you do not have time to jump aside.

Life itself should please a person. Happiness - misfortune, what a mercantile approach to life. Because of it, people often lose the feeling of the joy of being. Joy should be as essential to life as breathing. Goldermes

Happiness is pleasure without remorse. (L.N. Tolstoy)

The greatest happiness in life is the certainty that you are loved.

Any unambiguity primitives life

The whole real life of a person can deviate from his individual destiny, as well as from generally valid norms. With selfishness, we perceive everyone, and therefore ourselves, entangled in a motley cover of illusions woven from stupidity, vanity, ambition, pride. Max Scheler

Suffering has great creative potential.

Each desire is given to you along with the forces necessary to fulfill it. Perhaps, however, for this you will have to work hard. Richard Bach

When you attack the heavens, you must take aim at God himself.

A small dose of stress restores our youth and vitality.

Life is a night spent in deep sleep, often turning into a nightmare. A. Schopenhauer

If you are intentionally going to be less than you can be, I warn you that you will be miserable for the rest of your life. Maslow

Everyone is exactly as happy as he knows how to be happy. (Dina Dean)

Whatever happens tomorrow must not poison today. Whatever happened yesterday must not choke tomorrow. We exist in the present, and it cannot be despised. The joy of a burning day is priceless, as life itself is priceless - there is no need to poison it with doubts and regrets. Vera Kamsha

Do not chase happiness, it is always in yourself.

Life is not an easy task, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Mizner

Happiness is not a reward for virtue, but virtue itself. (Spinoza)

Man is far from perfect. He is hypocritical sometimes more, sometimes less, and fools talk that one is moral and the other is not.

Man exists when he chooses himself. A. Schopenhauer

Life goes on when the habitual way of life dies.

An individual does not have to be wiser than an entire nation.

We all live for the future. Not surprisingly, he is facing bankruptcy. Christian Friedrich Goebbel

It is important to learn to accept yourself, to appreciate yourself, no matter what others say about you.

To achieve happiness, three components are necessary: a dream, self-confidence and hard work.

No man is happy until he feels happy. (M.Avreliy)

True values always sustain life because they lead to freedom and growth. T. Morez

Most people are like falling leaves; they rush through the air, whirl, but eventually fall to the ground. Others - a few of them - are like stars; they move along a certain path, no wind will make them turn off it; in themselves they bear their law and their way.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but we often do not notice it, staring at the closed door.

We reap in life what we have sown: whoever sows tears reaps tears; whoever betrayed will be betrayed. Luigi Settembrini

If the whole life of many comes unconsciously, then this life, however it may be. L. Tolstoy

If they were building a house of happiness, the largest room would have to be taken as a waiting room.

I see only two paths in life: stupid obedience or rebellion.

We live as long as we have hope. And if you've lost her, don't ever let yourself guess about it. And then something might change. V. Pelevin “The Hermit and the Six-fingered”

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best; they just do more of what they are better at.

If you are afraid of misfortunes, then there will be no happiness. (Peter the First)

All our lives we do nothing but borrow from the future in order to pay off the present.

Happiness is such a monstrous thing that if you yourself do not burst from it, then it will require at least a couple of three murders from you.

Happiness is the ball that we chase as it rolls and that we push with our foot when it stops. (P. Buast)

Whether we like it or not, we all often think about the meaning of life. Is it good or bad and what does it depend on? What is the most important thing in life? What is its essence?

There are many such questions and they come to mind not only to us. Such tasks have always occupied the greatest minds of mankind. We have collected quotes about life with the meaning of short great people, so that with their help you yourself will try to find the answer that suits you.

After all, the aphorisms and phrases of famous philosophers, writers and scientists are the answers to many of the most difficult questions and a storehouse of worldly wisdom. And if such a topic is touched upon about life with meaning, then it is better not to refuse such solid help.

So let's quickly plunge into the world of quotes and aphorisms about life with meaning in order to try to dot the i's.

Wise quotes about life with the meaning of great people

Finding your goal is like finding the North Star. It will become a guide for you if you inadvertently go astray.
Marshall Dimock

Nothing bad happens to a good person either during life or after death.
Socrates

The essence of life is to find yourself.
Muhammad Iqbal

Death is an arrow shot at you, and life is the moment that it flies to you.
Al Husri

In a dialogue with life, it is not her question that matters, but our answer.
Marina Tsvetaeva

Whatever it is, never take life too seriously - you won't get out of it alive anyway.
Keene Hubbard

A person's life is meaningful only to the extent that it helps to make the lives of other people more beautiful and nobler. Life is sacred. It is the highest value to which all other values are subordinate.
Albert Einstein

Life is like a play in the theatre: what matters is not how long it lasts, but how well it is played.
Seneca

Those who are only going to live all their lives live poorly.
Publius Cyrus

Live as if you now have to say goodbye to life, as if the time left to you is an unexpected gift.
Marcus Aurelius

Needless to say, all the beautiful quotes about life with meaning selected here have stood the test of time. But whether they will pass the test for compliance with your ideas about the essence of existence is not for us to decide.

There is only one important thing for everyone in life - to improve your soul. It is only in this one deed that a person does not get hindered, and only from this deed does a person always feel joyful.
Lev Tolstoy

If a person begins to be interested in the meaning of life or its value, this means that he is sick.
Sigmund Freud

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Gospel Text in Russian Literature of the 18th-20th Centuries Quote Reminiscence Motif Plot Genre Issue 6, Zakharov V. (ed.). The collection was compiled on the basis of materials of the VI International Conference "The Gospel Text in Russian Literature of the 18th-20th Centuries: Quotation, Reminiscence, Motif, Plot, Genre", which took place in…