Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 22

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

  Will Durant

  Self, Giving, Purpose

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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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• 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 spirit is the true self.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Spiritual, Self

  'De Republica' bk. 6, ch. 26

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• Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Pain, Memories

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• The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

  Nelson DeMille

  Country, Cutting, Evil

  "Plum Island". Book by Nelson DeMille, www.bookreporter.com. April 1, 1997.

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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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• To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

  Ernest Becker

  Fun, Men, Play

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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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• She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Fall, Sleep

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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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• 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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• There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route and some take the short route. Every man is working out his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Work Out, Long

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• Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Giving, Suffering, Purpose

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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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• People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.

  John Piper

  Biblical, Thinking, People

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• One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Space, Giving

  "Religion and the Rebel". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 309, 1957.

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