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  • #1
    Albert Camus
    “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.”
    Albert Camus

  • #2
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

  • #3
    Amit Ray
    “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
    Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

  • #4
    Shannon L. Alder
    “There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake.”
    Shannon Alder

  • #5
    C. JoyBell C.
    “There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to see what's good for him. But in the letting go........is found freedom. In the letting go........ is found the flight!”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #6
    Henry Miller
    “Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
    Henry Miller

  • #7
    Michael Crichton
    “The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.”
    Michael Crichton, Congo

  • #8
    Charles M. Schulz
    “I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.”
    Charles M. Schulz, Charles M. Schulz: Conversations

  • #9
    Draya Mooney
    “Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself.”
    Draya Mooney

  • #10
    Christopher Hitchens
    “The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on—only henceforth in my absence. (It's the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall.”
    Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

  • #11
    Donald Van de Mark
    “Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my mother, Phyllis, liked to say, “There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.”
    Donald Van de Mark, The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative, and Joyous People

  • #12
    Michael Crichton
    “Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.”
    Michael Crichton, The Lost World

  • #13
    Anthony de Mello
    “As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”
    Anthony de Mello

  • #14
    Sophie Kinsella
    “We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?”
    Sophie Kinsella

  • #15
    Gabriel Bá
    “Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.”
    Gabriel Bá, Daytripper

  • #16
    Jamie Magee
    “The end is not the reward; the path you take, the emotions that course through you as you grasp life - that is the reward.”
    Jamie Magee, Embody

  • #17
    C. JoyBell C.
    “God and Destiny are not against us, rather they are for us, they are the ones who never forget the things we have long forgotten, the ones who hear the desires of our heart that our own heads can't hear, and they are the ones who never forget who we really are, long after our minds have forgotten the images of who we are. We come from God and we belong to Destiny, yet for some reason of ignorance we think that to be the master of our own fates and the captain of our own souls means to write everything down on a paper and plan everything out on a grid! Such great things to be done, and we think they are accomplished by our primitive ways! No. We must only know what we want. And want what we want. And then fly high enough to see all that which we want that we couldn't yet see.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #18
    Stephen  King
    “You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.”
    Stephen King

  • #19
    Janosch
    “Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.”
    Janosch

  • #20
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...”
    E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

  • #21
    Mira Grant
    “George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.”
    Mira Grant, Feed

  • #22
    “He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? But to act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.”
    Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

  • #23
    Johann Gottfried Herder
    “To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.”
    Johann Gottfried Herder

  • #24
    Ivan Goncharov
    “When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.”
    Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

  • #25
    Stanley Kubrick
    “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
    Stanley Kubrick

  • #26
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”
    Victor Frankl

  • #27
    Welwyn Wilton Katz
    “Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.”
    Welwyn Wilton Katz

  • #28
    Tom Butler-Bowdon
    “Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?”
    Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

  • #29
    Alice Walker
    “It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple

  • #30
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning



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