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![Arthur Conan Doyle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1495008883i/2448._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”
― The Adventure of the Cardboard Box - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
― The Adventure of the Cardboard Box - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
![Alice Walker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1406752585i/7380._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
![Alberto Caeiro](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389996766i/322304._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?”
― The Keeper of Sheep
But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?”
― The Keeper of Sheep
![Tom Butler-Bowdon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1278325053i/86328._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?”
― 50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus
― 50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus
![Thomas Hylland Eriksen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1392041704i/121271._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live is only one among innumerable ways of life which humans have adopted. If we glance sideways and backwards, we will quickly discover that modern society, with its many possibilities and seducing offers, its dizzying complexity and its impressive technological advances, is a way of life which has not been tried out for long. Perhaps, psychologically speaking, we have just left the cave: in terms of the history of our species, we have but spent a moment in modern societies. (..) Anthropology may not provide the answer to the question of the meaning of life, but at least it can tell us that there are many ways in which to make a life meaningful.”
― Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
― Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
![Haim Shapira](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1335994040i/1666230._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins, it is a moment of grace. When love is victorious and defeats despair completely, you've reached the path of grace.”
― על הדברים החשובים באמת
― על הדברים החשובים באמת
![Robert McKee](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207310602i/27312.jpg)
“Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.”
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
― Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth, love, beauty, and adoration of nature.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
![Stephen Jenkinson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1544995581i/204809._UY200_CR47,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The meanings of life aren’t inherited. What is inherited is the mandate to make meanings of life by how we live. The endings of life give life’s meanings a chance to show. The beginning of the end of our order, our way, is now in view. This isn’t punishment, any more than dying is a punishment for being born.”
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![Beverley Nichols](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1221411232i/59389._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Often, when I have been feeling lonely, when a book as been thrust aside in boredom [...] I have lain back and stared at the shadows on the ceiling, wondering what life is all about [...] and then, suddenly, there is the echo of the swinging door, and across the carpet, walking with the utmost delicacy and precision, stalks Four or Five or Oscar. He sits down on the floor beside me, regarding my long legs, my old jumper, and my floppy arms, with a purely practical interest. Which part of this large male body will form the most appropriate lap? Usually he settles for the chest. Whereupon he springs up and there is a feeling of cold fur [...] and the tip of an icy nose, thrust against my wrist and a positive tattoo of purrs. And I no longer wonder what life is all about.”
― Cats' A. B. C
― Cats' A. B. C
![Alberto Caeiro](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389996766i/322304._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,
And I look at flowers and I smile...
I don’t know if they understand me
Or if I understand them,
But I know the truth is in them and in me
And in our common divinity
Of letting ourselves go and live on the Earth
And carrying us in our arms through the contented Seasons
And letting the wind sing us to sleep
And not have dreams in our sleep.”
―
And I look at flowers and I smile...
I don’t know if they understand me
Or if I understand them,
But I know the truth is in them and in me
And in our common divinity
Of letting ourselves go and live on the Earth
And carrying us in our arms through the contented Seasons
And letting the wind sing us to sleep
And not have dreams in our sleep.”
―
![Erich Maria Remarque](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207351165i/4116._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“Actually, what does man live for?”
“To think about it. Any other question?”
“Yes. Why does he die just when he has done that and has become a bit more sensible?” “Some people die without having become more sensible.”
“Don’t evade my question. And don’t start talking about the transmigration of souls.”
“I’ll ask you something else first. Lions kill antelopes; spiders flies; foxes chickens; which is the only race in the world that wars on itself uninterruptedly, fighting and killing one another?”
“Those are questions for children. The crown of creation, of course, the human being— who invented the words love, kindness, and mercy.” “Good. And who is the only being in Nature that is capable of committing suicide and does it?” “Again the human being— who invented eternity, God, and resurrection.”
“Excellent,” Ravic said. “You see of how many contradictions we consist. And you want to know why we die?”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“To think about it. Any other question?”
“Yes. Why does he die just when he has done that and has become a bit more sensible?” “Some people die without having become more sensible.”
“Don’t evade my question. And don’t start talking about the transmigration of souls.”
“I’ll ask you something else first. Lions kill antelopes; spiders flies; foxes chickens; which is the only race in the world that wars on itself uninterruptedly, fighting and killing one another?”
“Those are questions for children. The crown of creation, of course, the human being— who invented the words love, kindness, and mercy.” “Good. And who is the only being in Nature that is capable of committing suicide and does it?” “Again the human being— who invented eternity, God, and resurrection.”
“Excellent,” Ravic said. “You see of how many contradictions we consist. And you want to know why we die?”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
![Alaric Hutchinson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1459663382i/8396281._UY200_CR18,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.”
― Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
― Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
![Alexander Pushkin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207346296i/16070._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“X
Блажен, кто смолоду был молод,
Блажен, кто вовремя созрел,
Кто постепенно жизни холод
С летами вытерпеть умел;
Кто странным снам не предавался,
Кто черни светской не чуждался,
Кто в двадцать лет был франт иль хват,
А в тридцать выгодно женат;
Кто в пятьдесят освободился
От частных и других долгов,
Кто славы, денег и чинов
Спокойно в очередь добился,
О ком твердили целый век:
N. N. прекрасный человек.
XI
Но грустно думать, что напрасно
Была нам молодость дана,
Что изменяли ей всечасно,
Что обманула нас она;
Что наши лучшие желанья,
Что наши свежие мечтанья
Истлели быстрой чередой,
Как листья осенью гнилой.
Несносно видеть пред собою
Одних обедов длинный ряд,
Глядеть на жизнь, как на обряд,
И вслед за чинною толпою
Идти, не разделяя с ней
Ни общих мнений, ни страстей.”
― Eugene Onegin
Блажен, кто смолоду был молод,
Блажен, кто вовремя созрел,
Кто постепенно жизни холод
С летами вытерпеть умел;
Кто странным снам не предавался,
Кто черни светской не чуждался,
Кто в двадцать лет был франт иль хват,
А в тридцать выгодно женат;
Кто в пятьдесят освободился
От частных и других долгов,
Кто славы, денег и чинов
Спокойно в очередь добился,
О ком твердили целый век:
N. N. прекрасный человек.
XI
Но грустно думать, что напрасно
Была нам молодость дана,
Что изменяли ей всечасно,
Что обманула нас она;
Что наши лучшие желанья,
Что наши свежие мечтанья
Истлели быстрой чередой,
Как листья осенью гнилой.
Несносно видеть пред собою
Одних обедов длинный ряд,
Глядеть на жизнь, как на обряд,
И вслед за чинною толпою
Идти, не разделяя с ней
Ни общих мнений, ни страстей.”
― Eugene Onegin
![John Fowles](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1486678092i/10039._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“- Вот она, истина. Не в серпе и молоте. Не в звездах и полосах. Не в распятии. Не в солнце. Не в золоте. Не в инь и ян. В улыбке.”
― The Magus
― The Magus
![Paul H. Magid](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1334381163i/5269021._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“I learned that one person hurting another really is like a hand curling into a fist to smash the foot. And that all that really matters is family and other people. And that the purpose of life is to find the Light of God, but not the light from some old guy with a beard sitting up there judging us. The light is the love we give each other on our way back home. And that God wouldn’t mind if we spent a little less time telling him how great he is and a little more time loving each other, and not just the people we’re supposed to love, but everyone.”
― Lifting the Wheel of Karma
― Lifting the Wheel of Karma
![Jane Bennett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1628592281i/376894._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...”
― Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
― Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
![Alberto Caeiro](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389996766i/322304._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!
He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,
And isn’t cured from the outside,
Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,
Or a trunk not having iron bands!
There being injustice is like there being death.”
― The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,
And isn’t cured from the outside,
Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,
Or a trunk not having iron bands!
There being injustice is like there being death.”
― The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
![Ernst Jünger](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1222085840i/281443._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Glass Bees
― The Glass Bees
“We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of life.”
―
―
![Alberto Caeiro](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1389996766i/322304._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“Also at times, on the surface of streams,
Water?bubbles form
And grow and burst
And have no meaning at all
Except that they’re water?bubbles
Growing and bursting.”
― The Keeper of Sheep
Water?bubbles form
And grow and burst
And have no meaning at all
Except that they’re water?bubbles
Growing and bursting.”
― The Keeper of Sheep
![Tracy Engelbrecht](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1353239677i/1519573._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Maybe the Truth of the Meaning of Life, Ancient and Arcane Knowledge of the Great Unknowable Universe is handed down only to persons presenting with the correct brand-name footwear. If you turn up wearing Shoe City knock-offs, you don't get to pass Go and collect Infinite Enlightenment.”
― The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
― The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
![David Mutti Clark](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1372816942i/7155503._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”
― Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
― Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
![Viktor E. Frankl](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1542894524i/2782._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg)
“لقد استحوذت علي آن ذاك فكرة مهيمنة: فلأول مرة في حياتي أرى الحقيقة كما يتغنى بها الكثير من الشعراء، وكما ينادي بها الكثير من المفكرين على أنها الحكمة العظمى: الحقيقة هي أن الحب هو الهدف الغائي والأسمى الذي يمكن أن يطمح إليه الإنسان. ثم أدركت معنى السر الأعظم الذي ينبغي أن يفصح عنه الشعر الإنساني والفكر لإنساني والإيمان الصادق: أن خلاص الإنسان هو من خلال الحب وفي الحب.”
― Man’s Search for Meaning
― Man’s Search for Meaning
![Osho](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1540742202i/2856822._UY200_CR53,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A man is never an individual unless he is possessed by a desire so deep that it is deeper than life, so deep that he is ready to sacrifice his life for it.”
― Let go!: A darshan diary
― Let go!: A darshan diary
![M..](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398804684i/8182598._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Our once simple, unified meaning of life is being shattered into many, sometimes competing, concepts.”
― The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls
― The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls
![Alan Moore](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1304944713i/3961._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.
Dry your eyes, and let's go home.”
― Watchmen
Dry your eyes, and let's go home.”
― Watchmen
![Leo Tolstoy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651443031i/128382._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me... And now it's all over. Nothing left but to die!"
"So what's it all about? What's it for? It's not possible. It's not possible that life could have been as senseless and sickening as this. And if it has really been as sickening and senseless as this why do I have to die, and die in agony? There's something wrong. Maybe I didn't live as I should have done?" came the sudden thought. "But how can that be when I did everything properly?" he wondered, instantly dismissing as a total impossibility the one and only solution to the mystery of life and death.”
―
"So what's it all about? What's it for? It's not possible. It's not possible that life could have been as senseless and sickening as this. And if it has really been as sickening and senseless as this why do I have to die, and die in agony? There's something wrong. Maybe I didn't live as I should have done?" came the sudden thought. "But how can that be when I did everything properly?" he wondered, instantly dismissing as a total impossibility the one and only solution to the mystery of life and death.”
―
![Nicola Yoon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1610567480i/7353006._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
― The Sun Is Also a Star
“In the end, life is about collecting experiences and looking for the lesson and blessing in each one. Yet we are never to carry these experiences on our backs, only in our hearts. One will hold us back, while the other will keep us moving forward.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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