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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.
The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...
The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.
The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.
The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
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.
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
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.
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.
Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life
But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.
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.
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.
Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?
I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.
When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.
Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.
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.
We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.
If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.
I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.