#meaning_of_life

The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other. ↗

— Johanna Paungger

#meaning-of-life #purpose #art

If 'dead' matter has reared up this curious landscape of fiddling crickets, song sparrows, and wondering men, it must be plain even to the most devoted materialists that the matter of which he speaks contains amazing, if not dreadful, powers, and may not impossibly be, as Thomas Hardy has suggested, 'but one mask of many worn by the Great Face behind. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

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Life is problems. Living is solving problems. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

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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

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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#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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What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands? ↗

— Brodi Ashton

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The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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