Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 14

• We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Play, House

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• When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Spiritual, Loneliness

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• This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Heart, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.286, Paradise Publishing

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• Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

  Dick Van Dyke

  Love Is, Giving, And Love

  Dick Van Dyke (2011). “My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir”, p.298, Crown Archetype

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• Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is the true meaning of ninja.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Spiritual, Men, Order

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• How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Real, Tasks, Answers

  FaceBook post by Lynne Sharon Schwartz from Jun 17, 2015

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• The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

  Don DeLillo

  Doe, Modern, Value Of Life

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• Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

  Welwyn Wilton Katz

  Inspirational, Fairy Tale, Wonder

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• The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Cost, Found, Worthwhile

  Alister E. McGrath (1999). “The Unknown God: Searching for Spiritual Fulfilment”, p.50, Lion Books

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• There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

  Fred Hoyle

  Plans, Knows, Universe

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• To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.

  Jon Krakauer

  Purpose, Path, Existence

  "Into the Wild". Book by Jon Krakauer, 1996.

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• Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

  Melina Marchetta

  Red, Hills, Vinyl

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• Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.

  T. Harv Eker

  Meaningful, Ifs

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• The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Intellect, Live By

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• We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the world around us many symbols that teach us the meaning of life. We have a saying that the white man sees so little, he must see with only one eye. We see a lot that you no longer notice. You could notice if you wanted to, but you are usually too busy. We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and commonplace are one…We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Spiritual, Heart, Eye

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• In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Evil, Judging, Important

  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy ch. 1 (1942)

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• Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Dream, Prayer, Mean

  Jean Shinoda Bolen (2007). “Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness As A Soul Journey”, p.227, Conari Press

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• The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanization and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music.

  Bohuslav Martinu

  Mean, Artist, Pressure

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• Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Life, Fun, Honor

  Dr. Laura Schlessinger (2009). “How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."

  Pearl S. Buck

  Life, Real, Father

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

  George H. Mead

  Appreciation, Art, Attitude

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• Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Children, Pain, Lying

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• Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

  Carl L. Becker

  Fundamentals, Answers, Morality

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• Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a lifetime,they think something is wrong with them.Only now,when every other marriage ends in divorce,have people begun to understand that falling in love seldom grows into love,and that not even love can free a person from loneliness.And that sexual enjoyment does not make life meaningful.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Meaningful, Dream, Falling In Love

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