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• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Men, Answers

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.110, Beacon Press

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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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  Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Meaning Of Life

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• I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiring, Views

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Humanity

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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• For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Life, Inspiring, Workout

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Challenges, Meaning Of Life

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

  Aristotle

  Life, Helping Others, Essence

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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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• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Kindness, Caring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

  Erich Fromm

  Worry, Anxiety, Meaning Of Life

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.265, Open Road Media

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• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Nature, Flower, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1, 1931-1934.

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• Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Education, Learning

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. II), 1939.

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• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Depression

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Time, Memories

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Simple, Illumination

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.361, Wordsworth Editions

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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, Meaning Of Life, Asking

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

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• For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?

  Simon Critchley

  Disappointment, Philosophy, Thinking

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. August 2003.

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• So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Meaning Of Life, Arms

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• Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Men, Meaning Of Life, Doe

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• I was dealing with a lot of spiritual questions like "Who am I?" "What is God" "What is the meaning of life?" All of these questions that I think we can either face head on or choose to ignore, it's up to us.

  John McLaughlin

  Spiritual, Thinking, Meaning Of Life

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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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