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Related Each man reads his own meaning into New York MEYER BERGER VICTOR FRANKL ERICH FROMM ERICH FROMM C.S. LEWIS ERICH FROMM ARISTOTLE ARISTOTLE SAUL BELLOW No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow... BERAN WOLFE Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words. SORIN CERIN SAI BABA EDWARD ABBEY JOHN COREY WHALEY C.S. LEWIS C.S. LEWIS C. S. LEWIS VACLAV HAVEL VACLAV HAVEL W. BERAN WOLFE C. S. LEWIS CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON THOMAS MERTON THOMAS MERTON Dave was well-meaning, but he did the test pretty much on his own. BRIAN RUST VIKTOR E. FRANKL THOMAS MERTON HERBERT SPENCER There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own... JOHN GOWER HENRY MILLER ALBERT CAMUS VIKTOR E. FRANKL Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must
recognize that it is... VIKTOR FRANKL Arthur has always inspired us with his dedication to work and his loyalty to the agency. Arthur -- t... DANA COFFEY VIKTOR E. FRANKL ROLAND BARTHES PAUL BOWLES GEORGE WASHINGTON SUNDAY ADELAJA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA CHARLES M. SCHULZ JOHN DONNE JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES CHINA MIéVILLE JOSEPH MORRELL DODGE What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his... JOSEPH M. DODGE FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY VIKTOR E. FRANKL In Merlin, Arthur has a very loyal friend who keeps him on his toes. Arthur enjoys those challenges,... BRADLEY JAMES ABHIJIT NASKAR FRIEDRICH SCHILLER ORISON SWETT MARDEN CHAIM POTOK T.F. HODGE ALAN ALDA "The meaning of life can be found in the search" REZA FARIVAR It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went a... LUCAS SCOTT If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take hi... BEN SHAHN JANE AUSTEN The good thoughts that he appreciates of others is actually his own thinking that was buzzing and wh... ANUJ SOMANY STORM JAMESON STORM JAMESON JOSEPH CAMPBELL AGATHA CHRISTIE ADOLF HITLER EARTHA KITT How many infinite lives have been lived since man first had consciousness or awareness of his soul?<... MORRIS R. GATES He has to be able to provide some leadership in his own country on this issue, LLOYD AXWORTHY ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning. LEO BRAECK STEPHEN KING Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and o... ALICE MEYNELL VIRGINIA WOOLF Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it... VIKTOR FRANKL PATRICK LEAHY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER JOHN MORLEY When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and conce... MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI THE BACHELOR, THE MEANING OF HIS LIFE LIVING IN DARKNESS IS A CURSED ANIMAL.
THE BACHELOR, THE MEANI... MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI MAX BARRY HERBERT SPENCER HERBERT SPENCER Excepting for knowledge nothing has any meaning, and to have no meaning is to be nonexistence RICHARD BURDON HALDANE JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE JOSEPH ADDISON JOSEPH ADDISON JOSEPH ADDISON AGATHA CHRISTIE I have loved ... and love infuses everything else, infuses confusion and the blankness and the fear ... KIM WILKINS MOTHER TERESA CHUANG TZU C. JOYBELL C. JIMMY REID Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity tr... TRAVIS BRADBERRY JOHN STOLTENBERG We acknowledge there may be some confusion about the meaning of these terms, LUIS LUGO ERNEST BECKER Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind ... CARL BUCHER
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Man's Search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization'... 
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers. 
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found... 
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his g... 
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his... 
And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho... 
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have mea... 
The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real ... 
When I asked him the meaning of life, Dr. Webb got very quiet and then told me life has no one meani... 
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as... 
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but ... 
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but t... 
If you live only for yourself you are always an immediate danger of being bored to death with the re... 
Ascension If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no mea... 
The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will no... 
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding h... 
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding... 
As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the... 
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. 
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. 
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. I... 
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters... 
Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meanin... 
Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw... 
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supp... 
People will rather appreciate a man who wears one suit out of the several he has got and refuse to v... 
The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them w... 
I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties an... 
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no... 
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning... 
The sounds aren’t where the meaning lives. […]
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his... 
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He ... 
Often dream creates imageries based on your emotional inclination. 
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man whe... 
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the... 
A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
It is hard work t... 
Circumstance points to deeper meaning. 
The meaning of life is life. 
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's consti... 
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he ... 
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he... 
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the ... 
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. 
There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be re... 
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imaginatio... 
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeel... 
Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the w... 
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing... 
He is a man of integrity. I have taken him at his word that he does not have an ideological agenda a... 
He would say untruths and be ever double, Both in his words and meaning 
This civilization is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature,... 
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. 
Words aren’t just sounds or shapes. They’re meaning. That’s what language is: a protocol for t... 
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life. 
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred ... 
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarre... 
Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that acti... 
All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is ... 
The kindness that we receive from others in life, is also the kindness that we will want to give. Th... 
Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid... 
Finally, the dirty little secret about sexual objectification is that it is an act that cannot be pe... 
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest p... 
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the univers... 
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. 
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat... 
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ... 
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. 
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. 
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need... 
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. 
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. 
Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. 
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings... 
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. 
I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serio... 
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. 
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmo... 
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man ... 
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. 
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs 
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end 
À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes. 
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, ... 
And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love! 
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He mu... 
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ... 
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. 
Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only...