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.
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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.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
What's the meaning of life? Other people.
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
The most important things are the hardest to say
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.
The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.
Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.
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.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
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