Life & Living: Meaning of Life Quotes

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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, Psychologist

"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives"

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by"

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live"

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities"

James Baldwin, Educator

James Baldwin

"Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

William Ellery Channing

"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

Shirley MacLaine

"Life has a higher end than to be amused"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

William Ellery Channing

"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

Herbert Simon

"Life should be great rather than long"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

B. R. Ambedkar

"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives"

Tony Robbins, Author

Tony Robbins

"The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes"

Madame de Stael, Writer

Madame de Stael

"All the time I feel I must justify my existence"

Prince Charles, Royalty

Prince Charles

"We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being"

Terry Riley, Composer

Terry Riley

"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself"

Norman Cousins, Author

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live"

Norman Cousins, Author

"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?"

Edwin Markham, Poet

Edwin Markham

"Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure?"

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist

"We are not the sum of our possessions"

George H. W. Bush, President

George H. W. Bush

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery"

Andy Warhol, Artist

Andy Warhol

"What we pay for with our lives never costs too much"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart"

John Morley, Statesman

John Morley

"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud!"

Emile Zola, Novelist

Emile Zola

"Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

Shelley Duvall

"The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about?"

David Attenborough, Journalist

David Attenborough

"Oh, what a void there is in things"

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest"

John Glenn, Astronaut

John Glenn

"If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?"

James Carville, Lawyer

"Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me"

Layne Staley, Musician

Layne Staley

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

Paul Gauguin

"My life is not important here"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

Christopher Dawson

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