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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

— Srikumar Rao

I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.

— Miguel

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

— Henry David Thoreau

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

— Denis Waitley

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

— Robert Byrne

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

— Steven Pinker

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

✗Opposing Perspectives

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

— Charles Saatchi

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

— Samuel Johnson