Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 9

• The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Facts, Reason, Existence

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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• We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

  Muriel Barbery

  Fate, Thinking, Honey

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• The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

  Anne Rice

  Inspirational, Children, Angel

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• I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

  Nancy Thayer

  Each Day, Serious, I Can

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• The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

  David Viscott

  Life, Giving, Purpose

  David Viscott (2003). “Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.

  Dalai Lama

  Years, People, Trying

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Mom, Feels, Whole

  "Rebecca Romijn: I Feel as Sexy as Ever!". www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2009.

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• People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

  Young-Ha Kim

  People, Pruning, Dignity

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is wisdom in waves. Some surfers see it right away, others never do. To find success in surfing, we must learn to be in harmony with nature. This will bring a sense of peace. By sharing this peace, and contributing to other people's happiness, we can find the true meaning of life. Keep surfing . . .

  Gerry Lopez

  People, Surfing, Surfer

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• However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

  Michael Foley

  Believe, Silence, Solitude

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

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• Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.

  Steve Gleason

  Love, Life, Meaningful

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• Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

  Stephanie S. Tolan

  Thinking, Quests, Adventurous

  Stephanie S. Tolan (2004). “Surviving the Applewhites”, Turtleback Books

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• No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Running, Spiritual, Trying

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• Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving, Overcoming, Literature

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• It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

  Anodea Judith

  Life Is, Obvious

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• Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Helping Others, Helping, Grows

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• What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Simple, Illumination

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.361, Wordsworth Editions

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• And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

  A.C. Grayling

  Meaningful, People, Different

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• It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Mean, Responsibility

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

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• Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

  Laozi

  Darkness Within, Understanding, Tao Te Ching

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• A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Life, Family

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• For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Honor, Thanks

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books

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• Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Know How, Knows

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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• Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Plato, What If, Life Is

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