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Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Paul Tsongas

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

Oprah Winfrey

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Unknown

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Anais Nin

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Carl Gustav Jung

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

Samuel Johnson

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

Tom Head

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

Tenzin Gyatso

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

Elizabeth Drew

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

William Cobbett

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

Guy Kawasaki

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle 384BC

Again a different meaning has to be understood.

Buddha

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Philip K. Dick

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Gore Vidal

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Gustav Jung

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

Unknown

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Paul Tillich

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing -- then we truly live life.

Greg Anderson

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Paul Tillich

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis

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