Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 19

• I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Courage, Two

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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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• 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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• Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

  Janet Morris

  Life, War, Life Death

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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• The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist the Internet is wonderful are those who need it to give their life meaning.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2009). “Eating the Dinosaur”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Joy, Humanity

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• Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

  Terry Pratchett

  Misery, Life Is, Wells

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• Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Needs, Philosopher

  Max Lucado (2009). “Traveling Light: Premier Library Edition”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

  Abraham Verghese

  Children, Years, Tragedy

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• I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

  Walt Whitman

  Looks, Want, Dirt

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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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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• Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Children, Husband

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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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• 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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• Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

  Vaclav Havel

  Suicide, Hero, Suicidal

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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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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