

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
The New York Times · 1932
20 June 1932, p. 17; answer to a question from the editors of Youth, a journal of Young Israel of Williamsburg, NY
Traced to The New York Times (1932).
More from Albert Einstein
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”
Albert Einstein
The New York Times · 1921
verified“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
Albert Einstein
Science and Religion · 1941
verified“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.”
Albert Einstein
The World As I See It · 1949
verified“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
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Letter to Barbara Lee Wilson · 1943
verified“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
Albert Einstein
Death of a Genius, LIFE magazine · 1955
verified“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
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LIFE magazine · 1955
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“It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.”
Helen Keller
The Simplest Way to be Happy · 1933
verified“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
Helen Keller
The Open Door · 1957
verified“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Tomorrow Is Now · 1963
verified“One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.”
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My Day · 1943
verified“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living · 1960
verified“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
You Learn by Living · 1960
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