Life Means Quotes - Page 6

• No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Children, Father, Mean

  Lafcadio Hearn (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn Including the Japanese Letters”, p.369, Wildside Press LLC

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• The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’

  Ben Okri

  Giving, Age, Stories

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• As actors and actresses, we must rejoice in the possession of our physical faculties. We must experience joy in the use of our hands, arms, body etc. Without this appreciation and realization of the body and its many possibilities, we cannot perform as artists
  You should feel a flow of joy because you are alive. Your body will feel full of life. That is what you must give from the stage. Your life. No less. 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

  Appreciation, Art, Mean

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• What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Religious, Believe, Passion

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.76, Oxford University Press

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• The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

  Donald Miller

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Stories

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Mean, Emptiness

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• Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Reality, Elderly

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• You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

  Atul Gawande

  Mean, May, Circumstances

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.143, Profile Books

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• I'm a deeply privileged person. I have a safe, comfortable life, and there's very little at risk for me. I'm not going to get disowned by my family for talking about having an abortion, and I'm not risking my job or homelessness by saying something controversial that my employer might not like. I have this gift of stability and it feels obligatory to use that to make the world better in whatever small ways I can. It's incredibly fulfilling. Even helping one person feel a little bit better is really important to me and makes me feel like my life means something.

  Lindy West

  Mean, Abortion, Risk

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• Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Mean, Political, Suffering

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• Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Life means that I can live to see tomorrow.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Mean, Tomorrow, I Can

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• You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

  Jane Addams

  Mean, Difficulty, Knows

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone.  The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Life, Motivational, Dream

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• Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is herenow, this very moment - in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Future, Heart

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• Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Life, Giving, Trying

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• Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.

  Joel Dicker

  Meaningful, Book, Two

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• Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Beautiful, Death, Mean

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• To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Life, Mean, Soul

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• Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.

  Robert Breault

  Mean, Care, Tricks

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• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Lying, Team, Party

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• The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Meaning Of Life, Given

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• I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Meaningful, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

  Jesse Jackson

  Life, Christian, Religious

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• To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.

  Moby

  Mean, Creative, Different

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