Life & Living: Meaning of Life Quotes

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"Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way"

Scott Wolf, Actor

"Each person has their own calling on this Earth"

Billy Ray Cyrus, Musician

"What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal"

John Howe, Artist

"To be, or not to be: that is the question"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders, and man to be devoured by sorrow"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life, and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Life is the childhood of our immortality"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"An unused life is an early death"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"A useless life is an early death"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Our care should not be to have lived long, as to have lived enough"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

Groucho Marx

"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

Pablo Picasso

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"At any street corner, the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be"

Douglas Adams, Writer

Douglas Adams

"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"My trade and art is to live"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"Things don't have to change the world to be important"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life"

Socrates, Philosopher

Socrates

"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"Life well spent is long"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

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