“There is no greater vocation than to serve. But there is no greater purpose than to love. Live a life that does both, and you’ll be truly happy.”
Letter of advice to British diplomat Tom Fletcher's son. https://twitter.com/TFletcher/status/1033597850729570304 <br class="br">2000s, 2008
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Yann Martel book Life of Pi
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“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
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Source: The Powerbook
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Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 32
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
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“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto V, lines 121–123 (tr. Longfellow).
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In misery.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Inferno, canto v, line 121.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Source: American Wife