Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

  Sandra Bullock

  Meaningful, Needs, Stories

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• Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

  Charlie Sheen

  Meaningful, Trying, Goodness

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• Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

  Ruth Gordon

  Meaningful, Vices, Too Much

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• Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Purpose, Enthusiasm

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Mirrors, Dying

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• There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sex, Fear, Thinking

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• Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

  Austin Carlile

  Purpose, Wake Up, Given

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• The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Real, Literature, Life Is

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• The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.

  Edward Steichen

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Circumstances, Science And Religion, Courses

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.105, The Floating Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days and nights being the Divine expression we are? This is the meaning of life. It is to be. As a result, all of your creations are a natural outflow from the Divine within your being. This is the joy of life.

  Barbara Rose

  Night, Expression, People

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• The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.

  Ira Progoff

  War, Missing, Speak

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• The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Science, Vanity

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• The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

  Terry Orlick

  Inspirational, Passion, Heart

  Orlick, Terry (2015). “In Pursuit of Excellence 5th Edition”, p.26, Human Kinetics

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• Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

  Antoni Tapies

  Art, Thinking, Should

  Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”

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• But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

  Carl Jung

  Heart, Desire, Life Is

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