The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle 
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
Life's like Vegas. You're up, you're down,
but in the end the house always wins.
Doesn't mean you didn't have fun.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The key is, to not think of death as an end,
but as more of a very effective way to cut down on your expenses.
- the movie Love and Death
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
The light at the end of the tunnel
may be an oncoming train.
- Anonymous
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm.
- Audrey Hepburn
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
When life offers you a dream so far
beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Now this is not the end.
It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill
Trust your instinct to the end,
though you can render no reason.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything.
You are you and that is the beginning and the end -
no apologies, no regrets.
- Henry Kissinger
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser
than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall.
He will end by destroying the earth.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
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