Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 17

• To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Judging, Religion, Firsts

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

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• Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Positive Thinking, Addiction

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• How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Rivers, Water, Unity

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• The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

  Woody Allen

  Life Is, Human Nature, Nobody Knows

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

  Leo Tolstoy

  Appreciation, Art, Understanding

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

  Mitsugi Saotome

  Change, Encouragement, Inspirational Love

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• To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

  Gerry Spence

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

  Judy Collins

  Love, Music, Feelings

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• Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Perfect, Done, Highest

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• I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

  Nicole Kidman

  Careers, Important, Trying

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• The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Life, Humanity

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• Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Thinking, People, Attention

  Ferdinand Mount (1991). “Of love and asthma”, Vintage

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• Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.

  Criss Jami

  Love Is, Opposites, Doubt

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.96, Criss Jami

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• I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call it, the meaning of life. I know I was, especially at even my son's age in my 20s, and dabbling in Eastern philosophies and yoga and Buddhism and Christianity and Islam. I kind of touched them all, you know, just trying to figure out the meaning of life or if nothing else, figure myself out.

  Denzel Washington

  Philosophy, Yoga, Buddhism

  Source: collider.com

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• I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.

  Criss Jami

  Fun, Care, Purpose

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.62, Criss Jami

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• The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Awareness, Found

  Thomas Merton (2010). “Zen and the Birds of Appetite”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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• What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Land, People, Today

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• Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only-
  then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart, Joy, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.

  George Carlin

  Trying, Stuff, Whole

  "Keep 'Em Separated: Remembering George Carlin". Interview With Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 23, 2008.

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• For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Able, Infinite

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Hands, Quality, Quests

  Robert A. Johnson (1989). “He: Understanding Masculine Psychology”, Harpercollins

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• To me, the meaning of life is to be happy, it's to achieve happiness right now. It's to make sure your happy in the future and that generally when you look back on your life you're like; yes, that was satisfactory. And if some people on youtube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is; Do whatever you have to do to be happy.

  Dan Howell

  People, Giving, Trying

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