Meaning Life Quotes - Page 6

• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge like music, art, science To this end, I believe intelligent life might be evolution's secret weapon: the ultimate hack that might help us transcend entropy.

  Jason Silva

  Art, Believe, Intelligent

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• True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself.

  Kristine Carlson

  Understanding, Accepting, Aspect

  Kristine Carlson (2001). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Women: Simple and Practical Ways to Do What Matters Most and Find Time for You”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between humans and animals, there's no life after death, and there's no purpose to human history. Now, are you trying to tell me that it doesn't really matter if people believe we evolved or not?

  Greg Koukl

  Believe, Animal, Differences

  "Does It Matter If We Evolved?". str.typepad.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
  hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
  himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Fate, Challenges

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.142, Beacon Press

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• In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

  Bao ?ai

  Mean, Division, Unions

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• The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life.

  Dalai Lama

  Strength, Confidence, Buddhist

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• Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Men, Meaning Of Life, Doe

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Why does man need a meaning to life?

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Men, Doe, Needs

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.

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• I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now.

  Daryn Kagan

  Thinking, Space, People

  "Not Exactly a Student of (Media) History" by Harry Shearer, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2006.

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• To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Kings, Understanding, Watches

  Peter Ackroyd (2005). “Shakespeare: The Biography”, Vintage

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• I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Thinking, Life Is

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• What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose?

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Hope, Father, Giving

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• Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don't destroy life. It simply means: life is God - avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Vegetarianism, Ideas

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.

  Brendan Myers

  Uplifting, Empowering, Magic

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• Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Sex, Giving

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.119, Vintage

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• Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Men, Personality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• I want an ending that’s satisfying. I’m more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don’t like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mean, Want, Life Is

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger.

  John Green

  Love, Song, Strong

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• If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Grieving, Skeletons

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• All have dreams, Life for them, they add meaning to LIFE. The only thing that differentiates us from other beings is the fact that US can dream.

  Sujit Lalwani

  Dream, Add, Facts

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• People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Two, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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• We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

  Hannibal Buress

  Funny, Mean, Talking

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• These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Meaning Of Life, Tasks

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

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• The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth to every encounter. You don t look for the right partner, you become the right partner. And then the right partner finds you. It s a very active practice focused on healing.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Healing, Practice, Encounters

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