True Meaning Of Life Quotes

• We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.

  Dalai Lama

  Years, People, Trying

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Spirituality

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• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Valentines Day, Fate

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.32, Macmillan

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• You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  "Intuitions" by Albert Camus, Youthful Writings, 1976.

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• Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

  Frederick Buechner

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 17, 2016

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• When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

  Stedman Graham

  Inspirational, Dream, Vision

  Stedman Graham (1998). “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Thinking, Mirrors

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• Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Mirrors, Dying

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  The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Purpose, Ifs

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• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

  Jim Carrey

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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• For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Success, Humor

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Good Morning, Dream

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

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

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Compassion, Meaning Of Life, Needs

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

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• People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

  Young-Ha Kim

  People, Meaning Of Life, Pruning

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.

  Jason Peter

  Fall, Meaning Of Life, Loved Ones

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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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, Meaning Of Life

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• By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of it. Such self-discovery can lead to greater understanding of fellow-beings and therefore to true love.

  Venkatesananda Saraswati

  Discovery, Self, Understanding

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• What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Love Life, Sacrifice

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