Ends Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, / Is our destined end or way, / But to act, that each to-morrow / Find us farther than today.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better…

— Swami Vivekananda

The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it…

— Pier Giorgio Frassati

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets…

— Horace

“There is indescribable joy to be found, deep satisfaction to be felt, and an eternal purpose to be fulfilled in dying to ourselves and…

— David Platt

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

— Khalil Gibran

We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary…

— Baruch Spinoza

The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

— Kahlil Gibran

We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so…

— Anneli Rufus

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

— Willard Gaylin

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Pleasure! The end of suffering or the beginning of an enjoyment?”

— M.F. Moonzajer