Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 18

• 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

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

  Sandra Bullock

  Meaningful, Needs, Stories

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• What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Father, Eye

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• Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

  David McCullough

  Love, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 17, 2012

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• Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

  Matt Haig

  Thinking, Advice, Important

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• Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

  Lee Child

  Guy, Life Is, Ends

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• Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.

  Wendy Mass

  Giving, Answers, Life Is

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• maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

  David Mitchell

  Lying

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.226, Random House

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• Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Fall, Men

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• There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.

  Bede Griffiths

  Beautiful, Heart, Discovery

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• If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Meaningful, Metaphysical, Terrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Thinking, People, Attention

  Ferdinand Mount (1991). “Of love and asthma”, Vintage

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• Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life

  Amanda Hocking

  Sometimes, Life Is, Busy

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• The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

  Woody Allen

  Life Is, Human Nature, Nobody Knows

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Rivers, Water, Unity

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• Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Positive Thinking, Addiction

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• What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

  James Frey

  Life, Want, What Is The Meaning

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• To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Judging, Religion, Firsts

  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy ch. 1 (1942)

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• What's the meaning of life? Other people.

  John Green

  People

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• To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Horse, Pondering

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

  Judy Collins

  Love, Music, Feelings

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• Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

  Ken Robinson

  Inspirational, Education, Lying

  "How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?". "Ted Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 17, 2012.

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