#meaning_of_life

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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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. ↗

— Anne Rice

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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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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. ↗

— Albert Camus

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It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

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The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever ↗

— Westminster Shorter Catechism

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That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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