#meaning_of_life

What's the meaning of life? Other people. ↗

— John Green

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I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

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You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be. ↗

— Deborah Day

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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

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Wahrscheinlich kann man vom Nichtwollen seelisch nicht leben; eine Sache nicht tun wollen, das ist auf Dauer kein Lebensinhalt. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone? ↗

— Elliot Perlman

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Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you. ↗

— Cory Basil

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To every thig there is a season,a time for every purpose under the sun. A time to be born, and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to recap. A time to weep, and I time to laugh A time to mourn, and a time to dance. ↗

— Anonymous

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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. ↗

— Jon Krakauer Into the Wild

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