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  • The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

    1958 In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.
  • Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  • I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

  • There is no use in one person attempting to tell another what the meaning of life is. It involves too intimate an awareness. A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very discovering of it. It is an ongoing experience of growth that involves a deepening contact with reality. To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether. The meaning of life is indeed objective when it is reached, but the way to it is by a path of subjectivities. . . . The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person.

    Life   War   Reality  
  • It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

    "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.
  • Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press
  • Life is half spent before we know what it is.

    Life   Bad Ass   Reality  
    George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177
  • Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

    Life   Death   Knowledge  
  • 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 is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.

  • I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

  • I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

  • Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

    Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993
  • It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

    Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.56, Beacon Press
  • There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

    Funny   Life   Sweet  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “My Best Short Stories (Annotated Edition)”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  • Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy

    Heart   Joy   Humanity  
    Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
  • A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

    Ira Progoff (1992). “At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability”, Tarcher
  • As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

    Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.19, Penguin
  • To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.6074, e-artnow
  • There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.

  • Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge
  • We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

    "The Story of Stevie Wonder". Book by James Haskins, 1976.
  • Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

    Life   Purpose   Ifs  
  • 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn't how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it's how many lives you touch, how many faces you bring smiles to. I see myself back in Hawaii doing something in the community to improve the lives of young children. Everything I've done is to prepare myself to give back.

  • Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

    "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. II), 1939.
  • If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

    "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space". Book by Virgil I. Grissom, 1968.
  • When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?

  • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
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