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• The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

  Robert Jones Burdette

  Meaningful, Good Life, Live Life

  "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Meaningful, Fate, Giving

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• We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Healing, Asking, Answers

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “Very Far Away from Anywhere Else”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Life, Insightful, Moments

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• When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Mature Person, Giving

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

  Janet Morris

  Men, Quality, Matter

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.8, Paradise Publishing

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• If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suffering, Mans Search For Meaning, Meaning Life

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.73, Beacon Press

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• We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Purpose

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Jailbird”, p.236, Random House

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• Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

  Dalai Lama

  Waiting, Doe, Meaningful Life

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• I don’t claim to know an over-arching ‘Meaning of Life,’ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be lived under the pretense that it is simply a test propagated by an invisible, intangible, Creator-God. And it should not be spent identifying with religious traditions and organized groups that, historically, have been at the root of a tremendous amount of oppression and violence.

  David G. McAfee

  Religious, Roots, Creator God

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Aug 06, 2014

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• The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational Life, Expression, Single Life

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• We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

  Wendy Mass

  Beautiful, Taken, Cells

  Wendy Mass (2010). “Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

  George Soros

  Doe, Investing, Lines

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.363, John Wiley & Sons

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• Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.

  Woody Allen

  Meaningful, Sports, Religious

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Problem, Life Is, Problem Solving

  Raymond E. Feist (1993). “Silverthorn”, Spectra

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• The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Knowledge, Keys

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 18, 2016

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• Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

  Brent Weeks

  Life Is, Meaningless, Values

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• The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Giving, Purpose

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.284, Paradise Publishing

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• I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Community, Tolerance, Answers

  Dick Van Dyke (2016). “My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke”, p.138, John Blake Publishing Ltd

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• People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

  Erik Naggum

  Past, People, World

  "Knowledge and Information". naggum.no. February 6, 1996.

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• "What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

  Julian Jaynes

  Self, Civilization, Understanding

  "LIFE" Magazine, December 1988.

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• Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

  Elinor Glyn

  Girl, Ends, Aim

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