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What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. -- Adrian Grenier
We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships. -- Martin Seligman
There is always a double meaning in life... -- Nadeem v Abdu
Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society. -- Albert Einstein
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not "sobriety" and meetings. -- Stanton Peele
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. -- Christopher Paolini
True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself. -- Kristine Carlson
Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots. -- Franny Billingsley
The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together. -- Marilyn vos Savant
But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation. -- Stephen Hawking
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering. -- Viktor E. Frankl
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life. -- Mother Teresa
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding. -- Peter Ackroyd
A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee. -- Libba Bray
I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now. -- Daryn Kagan
You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life. -- Erwin McManus
What silly little things sometimes take on meaning in life, suddenly, out of nowhere. And you know they're little nothings, and you laugh at them, but all the same, you go on feeling them, you can't stop... -- Sarah Ruhl
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life. -- Michio Kaku
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time. -- Donald Miller
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth to every encounter. You don t look for the right partner, you become the right partner. And then the right partner finds you. It s a very active practice focused on healing. -- Alberto Villoldo
You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." "It sounds intriguing," admitted Eragon. "Always the scholar, aren't you?" asked Brom. Jeod shrugged. "Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile. -- Christopher Paolini
The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life. -- Dalai Lama
Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey. -- Alexandra Stoddard
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. -- Vaclav Havel
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. -- Tokugawa Ieyasu
In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics. -- Robert Lanza
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. -- Les Brown
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. -- Elie Wiesel
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. -- Carl Jung
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. -- Morrie Schwartz
Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity. -- Wole Soyinka
We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world. -- Erwin McManus
It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?' -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is. -- Richard Flanagan
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. -- Marc Chagall
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
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. -- Edgar Lee Masters
Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener. -- Joshua Cohen
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. -- Anne Stevenson
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Love, life, meaning...over. -- Stephenie Meyer
Life is existence with meaning -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Purpose is what gives life meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Give life meaning through your commitments. -- Paul C. Reinert
Love gives life purpose and meaning. -- Joyce Meyer
The meaning of life is happiness. -- Dalai Lama
Life without pain has no meaning. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The meaning of life is life. -- Alan Alda
The meaning of life is to see. -- Huineng
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
We are the custodians of life's meaning. -- Carl Sagan
What's the meaning of life? Other people. -- John Green
Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds. -- Robert J. Shiller
Life without purpose, is time without meaning. -- Kiley Callaway
"¦the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life. -- Roland Barthes
Only through communication can human life hold meaning. -- Paulo Freire
Life without dreaming is a life without meaning. -- Wale
Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. -- Rick Warren
Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning. -- Orson Scott Card
Is death that which gives meaning to life? -- Donald Barthelme
My life carries its own meaning in itself. -- Albert Schweitzer
Love life more than the meaning of it? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The meaning of life is that it stops. -- Franz Kafka
Life takes on the meaning that you give it. -- Liz Murray
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -- Leo Tolstoy
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. -- Novalis
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Resist doing things that have no meaning for life. -- Pablo Casals
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning. -- Etty Hillesum
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. -- Julio Olalla
The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.' -- Kedar Joshi
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained. -- Kenneth Rexroth
Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning. -- Kentetsu Takamori
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. -- Joseph Campbell
Each life contains as much meaning as all of history. -- Catherine Chung
The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life. -- Bill Phillips
maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it -- David Mitchell
I was looking for what the meaning of life was. -- Shakti Gawain
It is up to you to give life a meaning. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
A room without books is like a life without meaning. -- Thomas Jefferson
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The meaning of life is to get meaning for life. -- Wayne Dyer
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation. -- Grace Paley
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. -- George Carlin
Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. -- Jack Canfield
Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning. -- Annette Bening
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning -- Ruth Bernhard
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life. -- Riffat Hassan
Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely. -- Tony Robbins
The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile. -- Tom Rath
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning. -- Immanuel Kant
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning. -- Kedar Joshi
Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships -- Gary Chapman
Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it. -- Sidney Hook
God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning. -- J. I. Packer
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. -- Dalai Lama
The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life. -- Tucker Max
The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others. -- Laura Schlessinger
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. -- Leon Kass
The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within. -- Vishnudevananda Saraswati
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived. -- Bruce Lee
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. -- Antoni Tapies
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. -- Stanley Kubrick
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life. -- Veronica Roth
Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning. -- Ken Poirot
Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it. -- Tony Robbins
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. -- Stephen Hawking
To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living -- Socrates

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