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Purpose is what gives life a meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer
Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning. -- Annette Bening
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. -- Stephen Hawking
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. -- Robert Fulghum
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. -- Adrian Grenier
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. -- Elie Wiesel
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. -- Erich Fromm
Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning. -- Robyn Davidson
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. -- Lucy Lawless
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. -- Walter Kaufmann
One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny. -- Melissa Pritchard
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. -- Gore Vidal
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. -- Voltaire
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. -- Mitch Albom
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings. -- Steven Pinker
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
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. -- Paul Tillich
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love. -- Cesar Chavez
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. -- David Steindl-Rast
The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life). -- Ajahn Brahm
Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die. -- Bryce Courtenay

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