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Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.
Sep 18, 2025
We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.
Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
By introducing you to yourself it enables you to discover for yourself the true meaning of life and thus enrich every moment of it. Such self-discovery can lead to greater understanding of fellow-beings and therefore to true love.
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
There is wisdom in waves. Some surfers see it right away, others never do. To find success in surfing, we must learn to be in harmony with nature. This will bring a sense of peace. By sharing this peace, and contributing to other people's happiness, we can find the true meaning of life. Keep surfing . . .
What is art? (...) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.
People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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