Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 11

• Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Men, Doe, Would Be

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Compassion, Needs, Helping

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.184, Tharpa Publications UK

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• If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Keys, Genuine

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• It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Work, Men

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.

  Paul Kurtz

  Courage, Destiny, Hands

  Paul Kurtz (1994). “Living Without Religion: Eupraxophy”

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• Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

  Toni Morrison

  Differences, Sublime, May

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

  Shakti Gawain

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• Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.

  Judith Butler

  War, Commitment, Giving

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Mom, Feels, Whole

  "Rebecca Romijn: I Feel as Sexy as Ever!". www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2009.

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• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

  Laozi

  Darkness Within, Understanding, Tao Te Ching

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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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• No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Thinking, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Honor, Thanks

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books

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• I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

  Nancy Thayer

  Each Day, Serious, I Can

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• When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'

  Robert Breault

  Life, Notebook, Son

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• My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

  Marc Chagall

  Stars, Hands, Sky

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• It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

  Tim Winton

  Art, Compassion, Giving

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• The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fear, Mean, Race

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment.

  Robert Coover

  Hands, Order, Law

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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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• There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Spiritual, Two, Materials

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• Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life)

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Stupid

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Sep 11, 2014

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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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• Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn't how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it's how many lives you touch, how many faces you bring smiles to. I see myself back in Hawaii doing something in the community to improve the lives of young children. Everything I've done is to prepare myself to give back.

  Manti Te'o

  Children, Giving, Community

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