Life a Duty, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Straight is the line of Duty, / Curved is the line of Beauty, / Follow the straight line, thou hall see / The curved line ever follow thee", William Maccall (c. 1830).
“I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness.
I woke and discovered that life was Duty.
I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.”
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Paulo Coelho 844
Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate
“… and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.”
Source: The Fifth Mountain
The Chinese Novel (1938)
Context: A good novelist, or so I have been taught in China, should be above all else tse ran, that is, natural, unaffected, and so flexible and variable as to be wholly at the command of the material that flows through him. His whole duty is only to sort life as it flows through him, and in the vast fragmentariness of time and space and event to discover essential and inherent order and rhythm and shape. We should never be able, merely by reading pages, to know who wrote them, for when the style of a novelist becomes fixed, that style becomes his prison. The Chinese novelists varied their writing to accompany like music their chosen themes.
Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy
“It is your duty in life to save your dream.”
Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 1: Current Perplexities, p. 10
1950s, New Hopes for a Changing World (1951)
“I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.”
As quoted in his obituary in The Independent (11 July 2003) http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article36741.ece