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“The mature response to the problem of existence is love.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

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“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

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“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.”
― Hermann Hesse, Verliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe

tags: life, meaning-of-life

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“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

tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work

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“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

tags: awakening, ideology, meaning-of-life, spirituality

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