1,047 Quotes About Meaning-of-life

  • Author Temple Grandin
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    When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting value. That's the meaning of life, it's that simple.

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  • Author Amanda Hocking
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    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

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  • Author Carl Jung
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    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.

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  • Author Jesse Jackson
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    It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

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  • Author Jon Krakauer
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    To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.

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  • Author Paul Kurtz
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    It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.

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  • Author Annie Lennox
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    You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

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