Life Means Quotes - Page 3

• The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

  Bob Black

  Inspiration, Mean, Maps

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

  Ruth Gordon

  Meaningful, Vices, Meaning Of Life

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• Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

  Shimon Peres

  Ocean, Mean, Opportunity

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Pere, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day, without much passion or enthusiasm for life. Meanwhile, your talents remain untapped, buried somewhere deep inside. This is an awful way to live.

  Simon T. Bailey

  Passion, Enthusiasm For Life, Needs

  Simon T. Bailey (2009). “Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Life, Travel, Mean

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.95, University of Chicago Press

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• A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Mean, Everyday, Being Free

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• Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.

  Steve Gleason

  Love, Life, Meaningful

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• I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives.

  Willa Ford

  Mean Girls, Song, Night

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• Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Heart, Mean

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• Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Mean, Blessing

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• For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Girl, Mean, Perfect

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1590, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.

  John Burnside

  Passion, Mean, Nerd

  John Burnside (2010). “Glister”, p.21, Random House

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• Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Independent, Mind

  John Dewey (1977). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.229, SIU Press

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• Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of even Newton or Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. It is not just a wonderful idea. It is a dangerous idea.

  Daniel Dennett

  Ideas, Space, Awards

  "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1995.

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• You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

  Robert Browning

  Death, Mean, Dying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1902). “The Poetical Works”

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• Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

  Philip Appleman

  Atheist, Profound, Simplicity

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• That is art: to give all you have. And what have you?
  Your life - nothing more.
  And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

  Michael Chekhov

  Art, Mean, Giving

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• For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

  Leland Ryken

  Spiritual, Quests, Holiness

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.301, Harper Collins

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• Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.

  Stephen Russell

  Mean, People, Boots

  Stephen Russell (1998). “Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide”, Piatkus Books

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• It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.

  Francois Jacob

  Hope, Giving, One Day

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• Without the incarnation, Christianity isn’t even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. "Be nice to one another" is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of love beyond brokenness, and break open the dark doors of death with the key of hope.

  Michael Spencer

  Nice, Mean, Dark

  "Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality". Book by Michael Spencer, June 1, 2010.

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• A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Life, Family

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• A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Thinking, Life And Death

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Mean, Men, Purpose

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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