Quotes on the Meaning of Life
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* What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
-- Aristotle (384-322 BC)"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
-- Robert Byrne"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive."
-- Joseph Campbell"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe."
-- Thomas Carlyle
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
-- Pablo CasalsThe first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
-- Pablo Casals"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do."
-- William Ellery Channing
Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.
-- Judy Collins
"Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself."
-- Norman Cousins"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."
-- Norman Cousins
* Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- The Dalai Lama
"Walk in the ways of thine heart."
-- Ecclesiastes 11:19
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth..."
-- Albert Einstein"The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth."
-- Eliza Farnham
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made."
-- Benjamin FranklinDo not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
-- Benjamin Franklin
* Be the change you want to see in the world.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi"Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The man who is born with a talent which he is meat to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."
-- Whoopi Goldberg
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
-- Herbie HancockYou don't need the fame to be vital.
-- Herbie Hancock"If you live for love you spread kindness and compassion everywhere you go. When you stop believing in your heart you are but a sterile vessel wandering in the wilderness."
-- Francis HegmeyerIt 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.
-- Hermann Hesse"Walk in the light of your own fire, and in the flame which ye have kindled."
-- Isaiah 50:11
