“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”

LOVE (1972)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for…" by Leo Buscaglia?
Leo Buscaglia photo
Leo Buscaglia 84
Motivational speaker, writer 1924–1998

Related quotes

Nelson Mandela photo

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist

Nelson Mandela on life, 90th Birthday celebration of Walter Sisulu, Walter Sisulu Hall, Randburg, Johannesburg, South Africa (18 May 2002). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes
2000s

“We have lived and loved together
Through many changing years;
We have shared each other's gladness,
And wept each other's tears.”

Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) British music publisher

We have lived and loved together, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton photo
George Gordon Byron photo
Václav Havel photo
James Woods photo
T.S. Eliot photo

Related topics