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There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music. -- Kailash Kher
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
Is death that which gives meaning to life? -- Donald Barthelme
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Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. -- Kami Garcia
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. -- Barbara Taylor Bradford
Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question. -- Wendy Mass
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. -- Helmut Walcha
Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life. -- Donald Barthelme
Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life -- Lynette Gould
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms. -- Karen Armstrong
Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge. -- Alice Borchardt
Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave. -- Ravi Zacharias
Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ... -- Iris Murdoch
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life. -- Dave Willis
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
Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below? -- David Kenyon Webster
It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else. -- Noah Taylor
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There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life. -- Pope John Paul II
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
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds. -- Albert Camus
Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge like music, art, science To this end, I believe intelligent life might be evolution's secret weapon: the ultimate hack that might help us transcend entropy. -- Jason Silva
Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times. -- Stewart Brand
If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between humans and animals, there's no life after death, and there's no purpose to human history. Now, are you trying to tell me that it doesn't really matter if people believe we evolved or not? -- Greg Koukl
Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. -- Michio Kaku
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -- Leo Tolstoy
Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning. -- Annette Bening
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer
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
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. -- Emile M. Cioran
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. -- Charles de Lint
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. -- Henry Miller
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? -- Ada Cambridge
We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships. -- Martin Seligman
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. -- Morrie Schwartz
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. -- Max Frisch
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. -- Joseph Campbell
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
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
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
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
The meaning of life is life. -- Alan Alda
Life without pain has no meaning. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The meaning of life is happiness. -- Dalai Lama
Purpose is what gives life meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Love gives life purpose and meaning. -- Joyce Meyer
Give life meaning through your commitments. -- Paul C. Reinert
Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds. -- Robert J. Shiller
We are the custodians of life's meaning. -- Carl Sagan
Life without purpose, is time without meaning. -- Kiley Callaway
What's the meaning of life? Other people. -- John Green
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
The meaning of life is to see. -- Huineng
Life without dreaming is a life without meaning. -- Wale
Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning. -- Orson Scott Card
My life carries its own meaning in itself. -- Albert Schweitzer
There is always a double meaning in life... -- Nadeem v Abdu
Love life more than the meaning of it? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The meaning of life is that it stops. -- Franz Kafka
"¦the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life. -- Roland Barthes
Only through communication can human life hold meaning. -- Paulo Freire
Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. -- Rick Warren
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Resist doing things that have no meaning for life. -- Pablo Casals
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning. -- Etty Hillesum
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. -- Novalis
Life takes on the meaning that you give it. -- Liz Murray
The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.' -- Kedar Joshi
Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. -- Julio Olalla
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 can be revealed but never explained. -- Kenneth Rexroth
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
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation. -- Grace Paley
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
The meaning of life is to get meaning for life. -- Wayne Dyer
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. -- Dalai Lama
What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning. -- Kedar Joshi
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
Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. -- Jack Canfield
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. -- George Carlin
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived. -- Bruce Lee
God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning. -- J. I. Packer
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
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within. -- Vishnudevananda Saraswati
Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it. -- Sidney Hook
Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships -- Gary Chapman
The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life. -- Tucker Max
Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely. -- Tony Robbins
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning -- Ruth Bernhard
Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life. -- Riffat Hassan
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace. -- Longchenpa
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. -- Michael Jackson
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. -- Stanley Kubrick
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. -- Antoni Tapies
Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning -- Dick Van Dyke
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
Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning. -- Ken Poirot
In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life. -- Veronica Roth
Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society. -- Albert Einstein
Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it. -- Tony Robbins

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