Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 20

• The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.

  Frederick Lenz

  Life Changing, Simple, Self

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• Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.

  Paul Kurtz

  Independent, Opportunity, Destiny

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• I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Thinking, Knowing, Want

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• I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.

  John Zorn

  Art, Believe, Giving

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013.

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• In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophy, Mind, Religion

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

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• music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Music, Beautiful, Technique

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• When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Keys, Car

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• My life carries its own meaning in itself.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Carrie, Life Means

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

  Grace Paley

  Generations, Next, Life Is

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• The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Life, Order, Giving

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to ultimately take a scene where it needs to go. It's not about just saying something that's funny. You can say something funny but if it's not on story or driving the scene to its end it's really not very helpful at all.

  Vince Vaughn

  People, Needs, Stories

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• God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Limits, Possibility, Mortality

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• You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

  Annie Lennox

  Meaningful, Like You, Life Worth Living

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• It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.

  Eric Hoffer

  Meaningful, Men, Skills

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

  Daniel Dennett

  Caring, Best Effort, Society

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Perseverance, Persistence, Waiting

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• Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. … We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Thinking, People, Judging

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• What is there to understand? The significance of life? How long will it take to understand the significance and the meaning of life? 20 years? 30 years? And the same question will be here in another 20 years, I guarantee you. Until you stop asking that question. When that question is not there, you are there. So that's the reason why you keep asking the question: you do not want the question to come to an end. When that comes to an end, there will not be anybody, left there, to find out the meaning, the purpose and the significance of life.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Years, Long, Guarantees

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• The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.

  Ira Progoff

  Persons, Happens

  Ira Progoff (1973). “The symbolic & the real: a new psychological approach to the fuller experience of personal existence”

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• When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

  Tuli Kupferberg

  Change, Healing, Past

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• You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

  Herbie Hancock

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Tables

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  We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "The Story of Stevie Wonder". Book by James Haskins, 1976.

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• Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

  Janet Morris

  Nature, Simple, Clouds

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.292, Paradise Publishing

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• The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.

  Jason Evert

  Giving, Ready

  Jason Evert (2014). “Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves”, p.55, Totus Tuus Press

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• I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to play football. If you want to talk about the meaning of life, games, whatever, I'm more than happy to, but when I'm in that building, I'm being paid to play football. Conversely, when I'm not at the facility, that's my life to live.

  Chris Kluwe

  Football, Play, Games

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