A person is born not to drag out a certain existence in inaction, but to work in a great and grandiose task. L. Alberti
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Each person individually and all together can be said to have a certain goal, in pursuit of which they choose one thing and avoid another. Aristotle
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Finding your way, finding out your place in this is all for a person, this means for him to become himself. V. G. Belinsky
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Without a goal there is no activity, without interests there is no goal, and without activity there is no life. The source of interests, goals and activities is the substance of social life. V. G. Belinsky
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Anyone who understands that the meaning of human life lies in worry and anxiety will no longer be an ordinary person. A. Blok
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It is impossible to live peacefully and be happy while at least one unfortunate person still lives on earth. The purpose of life is the prosperity and happiness of all mankind. Ya. Bolyai
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To achieve your goal, efficiency is needed no less than knowledge. P. Beaumarchais
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In order to do great things, you need to live as if you never have to die. L. Vauvenargues
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The value of grain is determined by its yield, the value of a person is determined by the benefit that he can bring to his neighbor. Garibaldi
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Through the achievement of great goals, a person discovers in himself a great character, which makes him a beacon for others. G. Hegel
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High goals, even if unfulfilled, are dearer to us than low goals, even if achieved. I. Goethe
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- Taking the means for the end, people become disappointed in themselves and others, and because of this, nothing comes of all their activities, or the opposite of what they strived for comes out. I. Goethe
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Difficulties increase as you approach your goal. But let everyone make his way like the stars calmly, without haste, but constantly striving for the intended goal. I. Goethe
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Life “for oneself and about oneself” is not life, but a passive state: one needs word and deed, struggle. I. A. Goncharov
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The meaning of life is in the beauty and strength of striving for goals, and it is necessary that every moment of existence has its own high goal. M. Gorky
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- Striving forward is the purpose of life. Let your whole life be an aspiration, and then there will be highly beautiful hours in it. M. Gorky
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Life is fullest and most interesting when a person struggles with what prevents him from living. M. Gorky
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You must always live in love with something inaccessible to you. A person becomes taller by stretching upward. M. Gorky
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The best pleasure, the highest joy in life, is to feel needed and loved by people. M. Gorky
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Truly serious pursuit of any goal is half the success in achieving it. V. Humboldt
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Our life is a journey, an idea guide. There is no guide and everything has stopped. The goal is lost, and the strength is gone. V. Hugo
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- I'd rather be ashes than dust! It would be better for my flame to dry up in a blinding flash than for mold to choke it out! Jack London
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Trying to leave behind us more knowledge and happiness than we had before, to improve and multiply the inheritance we have received, this is what we must work on. D. Diderot
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If you set off towards your goal and start stopping along the way to throw stones at every dog that barks at you, you will never reach your goal. F. M. Dostoevsky
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The goal must be happiness, otherwise the fire will not burn bright enough, the driving force will not be strong enough and success will not be complete. T. Dreiser
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The whole meaning of life lies in the endless conquest of the unknown, in the eternal effort to know more. E. Zola
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- Acting, creating, fighting with circumstances and winning or being defeated is where all the joy, the whole life of a healthy person lies. E. Zola
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Whoever attaches importance to empty matters will turn out to be an empty person in important matters. Cato the Elder
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It is necessary to recognize as aimless not only that which does not reach the goal, but also that which reaches through the goal. V. O. Klyuchevsky
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He who walks slowly and leisurely, no road is long; He who patiently prepares for the journey will certainly reach his goal. J. Labruyère
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A life spent without serving the broad interests and objectives of society has no justification. N. S. Leskov
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- To be at a distance of some step from the goal or not to approach it at all is, in essence, the same thing. G. Lessing
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The slowest man, unless he loses sight of his goal, walks faster than the one who wanders aimlessly. G. Lessing
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Failure is not a crime; It is criminal to set goals below your capabilities. D. Lowell
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A person cannot live in the world if he does not have anything joyful ahead. A. S. Makarenko
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Nothing can be done well if you don’t know what you want to achieve. A. S. Makarenko
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- Human nature is designed in such a way that a person can achieve his improvement only by working to improve his contemporaries, for their benefit. K. Marx
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People must be valued according to the goals they set for themselves. N. N. Miklouho-Maclay
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A mind that has no definite purpose is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere. M. Montaigne
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It seems to me that the most perfect is the one that achieves its goals with the least cost. C. Montesquieu
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The purpose of life is this: to live in such a way that even after death you do not die. Musa Jalil
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You need to set yourself a specific goal in life. Of course, you need to have enough common sense to set yourself tasks within your capabilities. N. A. Ostrovsky
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There is nothing more shameful than to be useless to society and to oneself, and to have the intelligence to do nothing. B. Pascal
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To understand what is fair, to feel what is beautiful, to desire what is good, this is the goal of intelligent life. A. Platen
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To set all his forces in motion, a person needs to place in front of himself some noble goal that can inspire him. E. Renan
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If selfish well-being is the only goal of life, life quickly becomes purposeless. R. Rolland
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The desire to live and overcome dying is wiser than the mind, stronger than the will. R. Rolland
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When a person does not know which pier he is heading towards, not a single wind will be favorable for him. Seneca the Younger
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There are people who live without any purpose, who pass through the world like blades of grass in a river: they do not walk, they are carried along. Seneca the Younger
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Achieving the highest virtues is the goal of man. You should not set any limits for yourself in achieving them. G. S. Skovoroda
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Man lives on earth not to become rich, but to become happy. Stendhal
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What is important has always been and will be only what is needed for the good of not just one person, but of all people. L. N. Tolstoy
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It is bad if a person does not have something for which he is ready to die. L. N. Tolstoy
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The right way is this: learn what your predecessors did and move on. L. N. Tolstoy
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If the aspiration comes from a pure source, it still, even if it is not completely successful, without achieving the goal, can bring great benefit. I. S. Turgenev
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The purpose of life is self-expression. To manifest our essence in its entirety is what we live for. O. Wilde
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Satisfy all the desires of a person, but take away his purpose in life, and see what an unhappy and insignificant creature he appears. K. D. Ushinsky
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The main thing in this world is not where we stand, but in which direction we are moving. O. Holmes
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The nature of the means must be the same as the nature of the goal, only then can the means lead to the goal. Bad means are only suitable for bad ends. N. G. Chernyshevsky
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A purposeful person finds means, and when he cannot find them, he creates them. W. Channing
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If you want to achieve the goal of your aspiration, ask more politely about the road you have lost your way. W. Shakespeare
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Anyone who has been led to a goal has no right to consider that he has achieved it. M. Ebner-Eschenbach
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Achieving a dream is the greatest meaning of human life. A. S. Yakovlev
At the beginning there are several aphorisms from the brilliant Chekhov (see the best quotes and sayings of Chekhov).
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“Know thyself” is excellent and useful advice; It’s just a pity that the ancients didn’t think of showing a way to use this advice.
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The calling of every person in spiritual activity is a constant search for the truth and meaning of life.
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Idleness and idleness entail depravity and ill health; on the contrary, the aspiration of the mind towards something brings with it vigor, eternally aimed at strengthening life.
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In nature, everything is wisely thought out and arranged, everyone should mind their own business, and in this wisdom lies the highest justice of life.
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And this is, perhaps, one of Dostoevsky’s most famous aphorisms (see selected quotes from Dostoevsky).
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Life is like games: some come to compete, others to bargain, and the happiest come to watch.
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There is no other meaning in life except what a person himself gives to it, revealing his strength, living fruitfully.
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Every person is born for some kind of work. Everyone who walks the earth has responsibilities in life.
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Life distracts our attention all the time; and we don’t even have time to notice why exactly.
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Living is the same as loving: all reasonable arguments are against, and all healthy instincts are for.
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Man's initial goal is to be a man. The ultimate goal of man is to be human, and at every stage of development of the human goal it remains the same - to be human.
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Two quotes about the meaning of life from the outstanding French thinker Francois de La Rochefoucauld (see the best aphorisms of La Rochefoucauld).
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A person often thinks that he is in control of himself, when in fact something is in control of him; While he strives for one goal with his mind, his heart imperceptibly carries him towards another.
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Several aphorisms about the meaning of life from the outstanding Roman ruler and philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
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We humans are born to help each other, just as a hand helps an arm, a leg helps a leg, and the upper jaw helps the lower.
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The one who answered the question: “Why live?” - will be able to tolerate almost any answer to the question: “How to live?”
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When a person does not know which pier he is heading towards, not a single wind will be favorable for him.
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The meaning of life is self-expression. To manifest our essence in its entirety is what we live for.
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The meaning of human life is service, showing compassion and willingness to help people.
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Without interests there is no goal, without goal there is no activity, and without activity there is no life. The source of interests, goals and activities is the substance of social life.
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A person must develop from himself, find in himself, understand what constitutes his purpose, his goal
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Living in the world and not having anything to indicate your existence seems terrible to me.
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A truly serious desire for any goal is half the success in achieving it.
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Oh, to eat, to sleep, to shit, and to sit on soft things will continue to attract people on earth for a long time.
Quotes about the meaning of life
Give a person a purpose to live for, and he can survive in any situation.
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The one who answered the question: “Why live?” will be able to tolerate almost any answer to the question: “How to live?”
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Through the achievement of great goals, a person discovers in himself a great character, which makes him a beacon for others.
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If you don't have a goal, you don't do anything, and you don't do anything great if the goal is insignificant.
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Without a goal there is no activity, without interests there is no goal, and without activity there is no life. The source of interests, goals and activities is the substance of social life.
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The magnet points north and south; it is up to the person to choose a good or bad path in life.
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If a person begins to be interested in the meaning of life or its value, this means that he is sick.
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The concept of “happiness” and the concept of “meaning of life” cannot be separated from each other, as a consequence from the cause, and vice versa.
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We humans are born to help each other, just as a hand helps an arm, a leg helps a leg, and the upper jaw helps the lower.
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The purpose of life is the desire for immortality (even just name), the meaning of life is the choice of the path (and actions) to achieve the goal.
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Life distracts our attention all the time, and we don’t even have time to notice from what exactly.
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If the aspiration comes from a pure source, it still, even if it is not completely successful, without achieving the goal, can bring great benefit.
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You cannot swim and row without knowing where you are sailing, and you cannot live and do your life without knowing why.
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The purpose of human life is service, showing compassion and willingness to help people.
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If someone asked life for a thousand years: why are you living? she would not have said anything other than: I live to live. Life lives without any “why” and lives itself.
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The purpose of life is self-expression. To manifest our essence in its entirety is what we live for.
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A person who has chosen a prudent and reasonable life should not rejoice at all.
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A person must develop from himself, find in himself, understand what constitutes his purpose, his goal.
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There are people who live without any purpose, who pass through the world like blades of grass: they do not float in the river, they are carried along.
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Oh, eating, sleeping, shitting, and sitting on soft things will attract people on earth for a long time.
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There are two meanings in life, internal and external, For external affairs, family, success, And the internal is unclear and alien In the responsibility of everyone for everyone.
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Living in the world and not having anything to indicate your existence seems terrible to me.
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The right way is this: learn what your predecessors did and move on.
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To understand what is fair, to feel what is beautiful, to desire what is good, this is the goal of intelligent life.
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Will the messenger of deliverance come to reveal to me the purpose of life, the purpose of hopes and passions.
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Life becomes meaningless if we are not connected to other people by warm feelings of kinship and if we do not feel that we are creating and making a difference.
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When a person is full of life, he does not ask himself why he lives, he lives in order to live, because living is a damn glorious thing.
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If the goal itself is bad, then it is unreasonable, and where there is no reason, there is no greatness.
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Trying to leave behind us more knowledge and happiness than we had before, to improve and multiply the inheritance we have received, this is what we must work on.
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The role of man is to understand the facts that life offers him, organize them and build a more just world.
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High goals, even if impossible, are dearer to us than low goals, even if achieved.
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A life spent without serving the broad interests and objectives of society has no justification.
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Anyone who left behind at least one bright, new thought, at least one useful feat for humanity, did not die childless.
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Every person must justify his existence. That is, to the question of why he lived, what he did.
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It seems to me that the most perfect is the one that achieves its goals with the least cost.
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The initial purpose of man is to be a man. The ultimate goal of man is to be a man, and at every stage of development of the human goal it remains one to be a man.
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It often seems to a person that he controls himself, when in fact something controls him; while with his mind he strives for one goal, his heart imperceptibly carries him towards another.
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Anyone who understands that the meaning of human life lies in worry and anxiety will no longer be an ordinary person.
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Our main task should be that we do not follow, like cattle, the leaders of the herd, that we go not where others are going, but where duty dictates.
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Failure is not a crime; setting goals below your capabilities is a crime.
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Everything is determined by what you are looking for in life, and also by what you ask of yourself and others.
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If selfish well-being is the only goal of life, life quickly becomes purposeless.
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The completeness of life, both short and long, is determined only by the purpose for which it is lived.
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The task of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to live in accordance with the internal law that you recognize.
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No goal is so high as to justify unworthy means to achieve it.
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Our main goal in this life is to help other people. If you are not able to help them, then at least do not harm.
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The higher a person’s mental and moral development, the freer he is, the more pleasure life gives him.
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The slowest man, unless he loses sight of his goal, walks faster than the one who wanders aimlessly.
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A person's life has meaning as long as he brings meaning to the lives of others through love, friendship, compassion and protest against injustice.
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A person who considers his life meaningless is not only unhappy, he is hardly fit for life at all.
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Blessed is the one who has found his work; let him not seek another blessing. He has a business and a purpose in life.
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To set all his forces in motion, a person needs to place in front of himself some noble goal that can inspire him.
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Life reaches its peak in those moments when all its forces are directed towards achieving the goals set for it.
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In metric certificates they write where a person was born, when he was born, but they just don’t write why he was born.
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Living is the same as loving: all reasonable arguments are against, and all healthy instincts are for.
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Truly serious pursuit of any goal is half the success in achieving it.
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If a person has no goal, then his life is nothing more than a prolonged death.
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Anyone who does not understand his purpose is most often deprived of self-esteem.
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The willingness to sacrifice oneself to fulfill one's duty is the basis for maintaining life.
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To renounce all evil, to increase goodness, to purify your mind: this is the advice of all Buddhas.
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The life of an individual has meaning only to the extent that it helps to make the lives of other people more beautiful and noble.
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A person should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather should realize that he himself is the one to whom the question is addressed.
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Live forever and learn how to live. Moral Letters to Lucilius, LXXVI
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I saw the meaning of my life in helping others see meaning in their lives.
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When the water rises, dams appear. When the pumpkin ripens, the leaves fall off. These words contain the whole meaning of life.
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Being the richest man in the cemetery is not important to me. Going to bed thinking that you have created something beautiful is what matters to me.
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To live means to feel and think, to suffer and to bliss. Every other life is death.
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A person dies when he loses the ability to be surprised and enjoy simple things. Any other death is not considered death.
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The torch still burns, and while it burns, there remains a chance for all of us to illuminate tomorrow, a chance for a bright future. This hope gives my life meaning.
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There are only two ways to live life. The first is as if miracles do not exist. The second one seems like there are only miracles all around!
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To develop, change, grow, learn, adapt, love, gain experience, we must be open. This is a way of life and this is life.
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I consider it a specifically human manifestation not only to question the meaning of life, but also to question the existence of this meaning.
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The most essential thing in life is the ability to sacrifice at any moment what we are now for the sake of what we can become.
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Life is a constant change: weakening of the carnal and strengthening, increasing of spiritual life.
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Follow your heart, be honest with yourself, take risks and stay open to new things.
Reflections on life
30 pages of correspondence
There wasn’t really anything between you, a week-long relationship and 30 pages of correspondence in contact, but your thoughts are occupied with him, and you can’t help yourself. It happens that you know a person very little, but you can’t live without him. You see him for the first time and it’s like lightning strikes you. You can't move. A quiver in your voice, a smile on your face and butterflies in your stomach. You feel 21 floors above the sky with happiness. The cockroaches are celebrating something in your head, you are talking all sorts of absurd nonsense, trying to please him.
When you look into his eyes, you see your reflection in them, but not only that. You see your life in these eyes, its meaning and ultimate goal. And his smile is the gates of heaven for you, and when you see it, it thrills you to the point of trembling in your heart, to the point of goosebumps. With him you forget about everything. All those who came before him become nothing to you. It was as if there was no one before him. You just understand that all those who came before him are ordinary, but he is special, unlike them. Life begins with a clean slate. Everything is going as usual.
Suddenly you notice his passive mood, that he is somehow distant and eventually he leaves. This is no one’s fault, it just happened that way, it just happens. You worry, a small hope smolders in you that everything will work out and everything will be as before. You remain friends.
When you meet him again, you can't stay calm. Your hands are shaking, your head is a mess, your face is sad, expressed by the downturned corners of your lips. There is also sadness on his face, he is also not calm. And at this moment, that small smoldering hope grows, turning into a huge flame. You try to do at least something, and you start a conversation. You make peace and it’s like deja vu, everything that was in the dream is happening here and now to you in reality. There are no limits to happiness, it is endless, and he seemed to be happier.
But soon you see that he is cold and then he says that this is a mistake, that we do not need to be together. And again a small smoldering hope settles in you that he will come to his senses, and you begin to wait.
One day you write to him about your feelings, but he tries in every possible way to get rid of you - he deletes your phone number, blacklists you, avoids meeting, builds barriers so that it is impossible to approach him. Now unrequited love appears in place of rosy relationships. You collect the fragments of hope piece by piece, you still believe in miracles a little more.
You give him a surprise, but not on your own behalf, but from an anonymous person. And this time not so that he would return, but simply so that a smile would appear on his face. That smile that drives you crazy. When you see him in a dream, you are in a good mood all day, and you are happy that, at least in the world of dreams, you were together. In all these dreams you see a hidden meaning that increases your hope. And in every coincidence you are looking for some kind of faith in a better life, in a life in which he is. You are afraid that you really fell in love, you drive away these thoughts from yourself and close yourself off from other contenders for your heart, because they are all ordinary, but he is special.
You have nothing left but feelings, memories, his photographs, the same little smoldering hope and 30 pages of correspondence in contact. These 30 pages of so-called life, which reflect everything from the moment you met to parting with him, with the one who, in such a short period of time, managed to sink so deeply into your soul.
Quotes from great people with meaning
Stay away from those little people who seek to deprive you of your ambitions. Better make friends with great people.
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Your idea is, of course, crazy. The whole question is whether she is crazy enough to be true.
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Music belongs to everyone. Only record companies still believe that they are its owners.
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Avoid those who try to undermine your self-confidence. This trait is characteristic of small people. A great person, on the contrary, instills in you the feeling that you too can become great.
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We often repeat that a person is judged by his deeds, but sometimes we forget that a word is also an action. A person's speech is a mirror of himself.
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Remember: unsolvable problems, irreconcilable contradictions force you to overcome yourself, which means you won’t be able to cope with them otherwise.
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Women want to change. They are wrong. I am for happiness. And happiness lies in constancy and in not changing.
