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• We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Cancer, Fate, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.111, Beacon Press

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• Is death that which gives meaning to life?

  Donald Barthelme

  Giving

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

  Donald Barthelme

  Giving, Life Is, Said

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• The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Real, Men, Two

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• If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?

  Hermann Hesse

  Pain, Feelings, Secret

  Hermann Hesse (1974). “Kingsor's Last Summer”

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• We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Suffering, Different

  Viktor E. Frankl (1964). “Man S Search For Meaning”, p.101, Ratna Sagar

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• Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.

  Rebecca West

  Mean, Fire, Justice

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.

  Alice Borchardt

  Giving, Knows, Dies

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• I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life-I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life-day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Worry, Meaning Of Life

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.68, Ivy Books

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• If you want to learn anything, learn trust - nothing else id needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help - learn trust. If you don't feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help - learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Giving, Want

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• Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mean, Long, Flow

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• Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Real, Loneliness

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• Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

  Etgar Keret

  Scales, Schemes, Okay

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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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• Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.

  Wendy Mass

  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Answers

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• Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Giving, Sticks, Dignity

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• When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

  Dean Koontz

  Dark, Light, Purpose

  Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.265, Bantam

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• The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Romantic, Loss, Power

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.169, University of Virginia Press

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• On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Poverty

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.94, New World Library

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• Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

  Hesiod

  Life, Mean, Inspire

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.99, University of Michigan Press

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• For the warrior of light there are no ends, only means. Life carries him from unknown to unknown. Each moment is filled with this thrilling mystery: the warrior does not know where he came from or where he is going.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Mean

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• As Carol Dweck says, “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Mean, Giving, Effort

  Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.123, Penguin

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• This is the best message that I have been responsibly for it. This will help you, A, find your identity. Because you can never overcome life issues. You'll never overcome your condition without knowing your position. So identity. Significance comes out of identity, meaning life's purpose, your why in life. But the great thing is this book ['You are all that'] is so practical.

  Paula White

  Book, Knowing, Issues

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• My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Memories, Latin

  Isabel Allende (1989). “Eva Luna”, Bantam

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• The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

  Michael Bamberger

  Meaningful, Golf, Numbers

  Michael Bamberger (2005). “To the Linksland: A Golfing Adventure”, Gotham

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