Some people live as though the purpose of life is to be entertained, but might there be some greater purpose for their lives?
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“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: overcome fear, behold wonder.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))
“Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
“Nature fits all her children with something to do.” -Author Unknown
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“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” -David Viscott (David Steven Viscott (1938 - 1996))
“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919)
“You are asking yourself, as all of us must: ‘Who am I?’ . . . ‘Where am I?’ . . . ‘Whence do I go?’ The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.” -Bill W. (William Griffith Wilson (1895 - 1971))
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“We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can’t imagine.” -John Foster Hall (1867-1945)
“Love life and help others to love life. Be happy and make others happy.” -Author Unknown
“We are not powerless specks of dust drifting around in the wind, blown by random destiny. We are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes - unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.” -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 - 2004): “To Live Until You Say Goodbye”
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“It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.” -Author Unknown
“The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives. The smallest, the tiniest intellect may be quite as valuable to itself; it may have all the capacity for enjoyment that the wisest has.” -Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
“There must be more to life than having everything.” -Maurice Sendak (Maurice Bernard Sendak (born 1928))
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“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.” -Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein (Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)): as quoted in Peter Hershey: “The Beginning of the End” (2004), page 109
“What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on Earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.” -Barbara De Angelis (born 1951)
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While compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster traveled to the Himalayas, where he climbed to the cave of the world’s wisest man. “Oh, great sage,” he said, “tell me the meaning of life.” The sage sat Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commenced to unfold the meaning of life. When he finished, he placed a hand on the young man’s shoulder and said, “Do you have any other questions, my son?” Noah flipped a page in his notebook and said, “You wouldn’t know the meaning of the word ‘lift,’ would you?”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I woke and saw that life was service. I served and behold, service was joy.” -Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
“If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.” -Jack H. Goaslind, Junior
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“Every noble life leaves its fiber interwoven forever in the work of the world.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
“The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this Earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not ‘to have and to hold’ but ‘to give and to serve.’ There can be no other meaning.” -Wilfred T. Grenfell (Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865 - 1940))
“No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.” -Barbara De Angelis (born 1951)
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“Life is not long, and too much of it should not be spent in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in James Boswell: “The Life of Samuel Johnson” (1791)
“Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
“Perhaps the meaning of life is something each of us is meant to try to figure out for our own selves, and in so doing, learn things that we could learn in no other way and upon which we might not otherwise place so high a value.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” -Robert Byrne: “The 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said” (1988)
“I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest* from each day that I live.” -Nancy Thayer
* wrest: take with effort.
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“There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.” -David Nichols
“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
“Don’t ask what the meaning of life is; you define it.” -Author Unknown
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“There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself.” -Erich Fromm (Erich Seligmann Fromm (1900 - 1980))
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be ‘happy.’ I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” -Leo Rosten (1908 - 1997): “Passions and Prejudices” (1978)
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our own life.” -Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (1903 - 1977))
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“Man is the only animal for whom his existence is a problem which he has to solve.” -Erich Fromm (Erich Seligmann Fromm (1900 - 1980)): “Man for Himself” (1947)
“The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
“Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.” -E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985)): letter (29 August 1969) to Mary Virginia Parrish
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“Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we’re all of us looking for the key.” -Alan Bennett (born 1934)
“Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.” -Harold Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (1935 - 2023))
“The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008))
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“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That’s all there is to it.” -Anne Rice (born 1941)
“Purpose is what gives life a meaning.” -Charles H. Parkhurst (Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842 - 1933))
“What is the meaning of life? Whatever you want it to be.” -James Frey
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“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944))
“The meaning and purpose of life is too important to be decided by philosophers and sages; let’s find out what the simpletons and fools have to say about it.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
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“What most people want - young or old - is not merely security, or comfort, or luxury, although they are glad enough to have these. Most of all they want meaning in their lives.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Rockefeller Report on Education”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“I used to trouble about what life was for; now being alive seems sufficient reason.” -Joanna Field
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“Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.” -George Carlin -George Carlin (George Denis Patrick Carlin (1937 - 2008))
“The problem of the meaning of life is intractable, but life’s purpose becomes very simple when we ask ourselves what we should do.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” -Ken Hudgins
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“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” -Nelson Henderson (1894 - 1976): as quoted in Wes Henderson (Wesley Erwin ‘Wes’ Henderson (1928 - 2003)): “Under Whose Shade: A Story of a Pioneer in the Swan River Valley of Manitoba” (1986)
“There must be more to life than sitting and wondering if there is more to life.” -Author Unknown
“To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, ‘What’s it for?’” -Robert Fulghum (Robert Lee Fulghum (born 1937))
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“He who has a ‘why’ to live can bear almost any ‘how’.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)): “Twilight of the Idols” (1888), ‘Maxims and Arrows,’ 12
Meaning and Purpose of Life Quiz
- Why do people ask the question, “What is the meaning and purpose of life?”
- What is the meaning and purpose of life?
- Can different people believe that life has different meanings and purposes?
- What meaning and purpose have you given to your life?
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” -Mitch Albom (born 1958)
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“Life is all about setting yourself goals and then achieving them.” -Guy Martin
“It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.” -Viktor E. Frankl (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997))
“Life itself has no meaning; life is an opportunity to create a meaning.” -Author Unknown
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“Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
“I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.” -David Niven
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“The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley (born 1933))
“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.” -Myrna Lay
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“The meaning of life is to live it.” -Author Unknown
“I’m going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.” -Elsie de Wolfe
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“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: overcome fear, behold wonder.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))
“Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
“Nature fits all her children with something to do.” -Author Unknown
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“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” -David Viscott (David Steven Viscott (1938 - 1996))
“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919)
“You are asking yourself, as all of us must: ‘Who am I?’ . . . ‘Where am I?’ . . . ‘Whence do I go?’ The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.” -Bill W. (William Griffith Wilson (1895 - 1971))
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“We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can’t imagine.” -John Foster Hall (1867-1945)
“Love life and help others to love life. Be happy and make others happy.” -Author Unknown
“We are not powerless specks of dust drifting around in the wind, blown by random destiny. We are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes - unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.” -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 - 2004): “To Live Until You Say Goodbye”
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“It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.” -Author Unknown
“The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives. The smallest, the tiniest intellect may be quite as valuable to itself; it may have all the capacity for enjoyment that the wisest has.” -Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
“There must be more to life than having everything.” -Maurice Sendak (Maurice Bernard Sendak (born 1928))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Poverty and Prosperity” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.” -Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein (Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)): as quoted in Peter Hershey: “The Beginning of the End” (2004), page 109
“What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on Earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.” -Barbara De Angelis (born 1951)
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While compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster traveled to the Himalayas, where he climbed to the cave of the world’s wisest man. “Oh, great sage,” he said, “tell me the meaning of life.” The sage sat Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commenced to unfold the meaning of life. When he finished, he placed a hand on the young man’s shoulder and said, “Do you have any other questions, my son?” Noah flipped a page in his notebook and said, “You wouldn’t know the meaning of the word ‘lift,’ would you?”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I woke and saw that life was service. I served and behold, service was joy.” -Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
“If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.” -Jack H. Goaslind, Junior
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“Every noble life leaves its fiber interwoven forever in the work of the world.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
“The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this Earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not ‘to have and to hold’ but ‘to give and to serve.’ There can be no other meaning.” -Wilfred T. Grenfell (Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865 - 1940))
“No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.” -Barbara De Angelis (born 1951)
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“Life is not long, and too much of it should not be spent in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in James Boswell: “The Life of Samuel Johnson” (1791)
“Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
“Perhaps the meaning of life is something each of us is meant to try to figure out for our own selves, and in so doing, learn things that we could learn in no other way and upon which we might not otherwise place so high a value.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” -Robert Byrne: “The 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said” (1988)
“I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest* from each day that I live.” -Nancy Thayer
* wrest: take with effort.
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“There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.” -David Nichols
“Man cannot stand a meaningless life.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
“Don’t ask what the meaning of life is; you define it.” -Author Unknown
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Daffynitions and Definitions” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself.” -Erich Fromm (Erich Seligmann Fromm (1900 - 1980))
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be ‘happy.’ I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” -Leo Rosten (1908 - 1997): “Passions and Prejudices” (1978)
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our own life.” -Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (1903 - 1977))
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“Man is the only animal for whom his existence is a problem which he has to solve.” -Erich Fromm (Erich Seligmann Fromm (1900 - 1980)): “Man for Himself” (1947)
“The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
“Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.” -E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985)): letter (29 August 1969) to Mary Virginia Parrish
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“Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we’re all of us looking for the key.” -Alan Bennett (born 1934)
“Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.” -Harold Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (1935 - 2023))
“The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Prayers and Spiritual Affirmations” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That’s all there is to it.” -Anne Rice (born 1941)
“Purpose is what gives life a meaning.” -Charles H. Parkhurst (Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842 - 1933))
“What is the meaning of life? Whatever you want it to be.” -James Frey
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Choices and Decisions” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944))
“The meaning and purpose of life is too important to be decided by philosophers and sages; let’s find out what the simpletons and fools have to say about it.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Inspiration and Motivation” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“What most people want - young or old - is not merely security, or comfort, or luxury, although they are glad enough to have these. Most of all they want meaning in their lives.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Rockefeller Report on Education”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“I used to trouble about what life was for; now being alive seems sufficient reason.” -Joanna Field
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“Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.” -George Carlin -George Carlin (George Denis Patrick Carlin (1937 - 2008))
“The problem of the meaning of life is intractable, but life’s purpose becomes very simple when we ask ourselves what we should do.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” -Ken Hudgins
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“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” -Nelson Henderson (1894 - 1976): as quoted in Wes Henderson (Wesley Erwin ‘Wes’ Henderson (1928 - 2003)): “Under Whose Shade: A Story of a Pioneer in the Swan River Valley of Manitoba” (1986)
“There must be more to life than sitting and wondering if there is more to life.” -Author Unknown
“To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, ‘What’s it for?’” -Robert Fulghum (Robert Lee Fulghum (born 1937))
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Humans and Human Nature” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“He who has a ‘why’ to live can bear almost any ‘how’.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)): “Twilight of the Idols” (1888), ‘Maxims and Arrows,’ 12
Meaning and Purpose of Life Quiz
- Why do people ask the question, “What is the meaning and purpose of life?”
- What is the meaning and purpose of life?
- Can different people believe that life has different meanings and purposes?
- What meaning and purpose have you given to your life?
“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” -Mitch Albom (born 1958)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Charitable Giving and Helping” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“Life is all about setting yourself goals and then achieving them.” -Guy Martin
“It did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.” -Viktor E. Frankl (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997))
“Life itself has no meaning; life is an opportunity to create a meaning.” -Author Unknown
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“Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
“I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.” -David Niven
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“The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley (born 1933))
“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.” -Myrna Lay
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“The meaning of life is to live it.” -Author Unknown
“I’m going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.” -Elsie de Wolfe
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