True Meaning Of Life

Who will tell whether

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm

Here is the world.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. Frederick Buechner

We are visitors on

We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. Dalai Lama

What is the meaning

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

If you contribute to

If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility Dalai Lama

Life has meaning only

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What is art? (…)

What is art? (…) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice. Andrei Tarkovsky

Here is the test

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach

For if there is

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus

You will never be

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus