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The Gun Seller

by Hugh Laurie

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Jun 06, 2023 07:38AM

“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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“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: happiness, joy, purpose-of-life, social-justice

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“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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“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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“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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