AN HAPPY LIFE IS A MEANINGFUL LIFE
The meaning of life resides in joy and the feelings of harmony connected to happiness; without happiness, life loses meaning. Happiness is at the heart of our lives and our demand for a meaning. The quotes below underlines it.
The meaning of life resides in joy and the feelings of harmony connected to happiness; without happiness, life loses meaning. Happiness is at the heart of our lives and our demand for a meaning. The quotes below underlines it.
One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it consciously or not: What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. From the moment of birth, every human being wants happiness and does not want to suffer. From the very core of our being we simply desire contentment.
Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual and political leader, Voices from the Heart
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence becomes a mad lamentable experiment
George Santayana, 1863-1952, American philosopher, The Life of Reason
I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars, and planets, has a deeper meaning, but at the very least it is clear that we humans who live on this Earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves.
Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual and political leader, Voices from the Heart
Isn’t precisely happiness what we all want, without exception?
Saint Augustine, 354-430, theologian and philosopher, Confessions
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP AS SOURCE OF MEANING
A life without love and friendship is a meaningless life. The meaning of life is, largely, given by love and friendship.
Life is sown with those miracles that only people who love can expect.
Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
There is only one way of happiness, in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand, 1804-1876, French writer, Lettre to Lina Calamatta
Friendship dances around the world inviting us all to awaken to the recognition of happiness.
Epicurus, 341-270 a. C., Greek philosopher, Vatican Sayings
Of all the means which wisdom turns to in order to ensure happiness during all our life, by far the most important is friendship.
Epicurus, 341-270 a. C., Greek Philosopher, Principal Doctrines
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