Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 22

• Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Social, Situation, Eternal

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• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Meaningful, Determination, Lying

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

  Will Durant

  Self, Giving, Purpose

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• To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Goes On, Physicians

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.329, Penguin

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• Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

  Leo J. O'Donovan

  Hands, Giving, Life Is

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• The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

  Janet Morris

  God, Fate, Destiny

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.179, Paradise Publishing

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• Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

  Gabriel Ba

  Inspirational, Death, Letting Go

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• People and stars are made of the same stuff.

  Bill Nye

  Stars, People, Stuff

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• Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? Those who seek the folly of unrelieved 'happiness'-who fear moods, who shun solitude, who do not know the diginity of occasional depression-can find bliss easily enough: in tranquilizing pills, or in senility. The purpose of life is not to be happy.

  Leo Rosten

  Pain, Solitude, Pills

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• We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.

  Marianne Williamson

  Feel Better, Bed, Tonight

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

  Bill Nye

  Life Is, Strive, Genes

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.

  Doc Childre

  Lying, Heart, Technology

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• I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the life of a photograph. And in that one instant I got the title for a potential next book.

  Sam Abell

  Book, Giving, Titles

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love.

  Rajneesh

  Asks

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• The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Given, Life Means

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• Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Finals, Lasts, Firsts

  Viktor E Frankl (2013). “Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust”, p.145, Random House

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• The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

  Leo Tolstoy

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• I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Beer, Sunday

  Carl Sandburg, (2013). “Chicago Poems”, p.27, Read Books Ltd

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• Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Find Me, Meaning Life

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

  Paul Gauguin

  Limits, Life Has No Meaning

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Mean, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.57, University of Chicago Press

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• One question we must consider today is how we can take action to unify our nation, heal racial division, end poverty and give real-life meaning to the constitutional mandate that there be equal protection under law.

  Edward Kennedy

  Giving, Today, Poverty

  "Second Day of Hearings on the Nomination of Judge Roberts", September 13, 2005.

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• What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.

  J. I. Packer

  Loneliness, Self, Life And Death

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• Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Suicide, Writing, People

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.

  Woody Allen

  Running, Years, Want

  Woody Allen (1987). “Three Films of Woody Allen”, Vintage

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