Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 10

• I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Love, life, meaning...over.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love Life, Moon, New Moon

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Order, Swim

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• I wrote when I did not know life;
  now that I do know the meaning of life,
  I have no more to write.
  Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Knows, Written

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're forced to look for meaning within yourself Indeed, if travel is a process that helps you 'find yourself', it's because it leaves you with nothing to hide behind - it yanks you out from the realm of rehearsed responses and dull comforts, and forces you into the present. Here, in the fleeting moment, you are left to improvise, to come to terms with your raw, true self.

  Rolf Potts

  Spiritual, Home, Self

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• Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Faith, Courage, Dark

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

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• There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Meaningful, Atheist, Responsibility

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, October 2, 2006.

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• The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.

  Eugene Wigner

  Men, Honor, Desire

  Eugene Paul Wigner, Andrew Szanton (2013). “The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner”, p.318, Springer

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• Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Prayer, Exercise

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• No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Thinking, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

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• I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Responsible, Meaning Life

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• The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

  Bruce Lee

  Life Is

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.3, Tuttle Publishing

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• I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

  Shakti Gawain

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• Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

  Paul Tillich

  Reality, Names, Giving

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• Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Compassion, Lasting Happiness

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• In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Buddhist, Mirrors

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life.

  Jack Canfield

  Adventure, Each Day, Discovering

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen (2012). “Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II: More Stories of Life, Love and Learning”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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  When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting value. That's the meaning of life, it's that simple.

  Temple Grandin

  Simple, Magic, Lasting

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• Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

  Toni Morrison

  Differences, Sublime, May

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Keys, Genuine

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• Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

  Oscar Wilde

  Life Is, Easy, Dictionary

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• Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

  Novalis

  Art, Artist

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• Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Compassion, Needs, Helping

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.184, Tharpa Publications UK

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• The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Knowing, Tree, Shade

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• Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.

  Judith Butler

  War, Commitment, Giving

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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