Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
– Irvin D Yalom
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- Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit. – Irvin D Yalom
- Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. – Irvin D Yalom
- That just seems to be the way we’re built. – Irvin D Yalom
- The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines. – Irvin D Yalom
- To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone. – Irvin D Yalom
- Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in! – Anne Rice
- Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. – Brian Spellman
- MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that? – Anton Chekhov
- Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning. – Hans Kng
- We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe. – Jorge Luis Borges
- Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe. – Neel Burton
- Our history suggests that women will continue to show the world how to be friends. – Marilyn Yalom
- The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe. – John Archibald Wheeler
- I feel your words on my lipsand feel your mood in my hips – Maquita Donyel Irvin
- Don’t mind what people say about youthe most important thing is what you believe you are. – Val Irvin Mabayo
- Your actions may not directly define the kind of person you are but the words that come out your mouth surely will. – Val Irvin Mabayo
- We are all given equal opportunity to learn new things. We just have to be determined and persistent. – Val Irvin Mabayo
- Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? – Paul Gauguin
- Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love. – Auliq Ice
- Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. – Ryan Lilly
- Don’t be nice to me. Be what your personality requires you to be. Be what your nature requires you to be. Be real. Don’t pressurize yourself. – M Danish
- Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is not worthy of serious consideration. – Billy Graham
- When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder – Arthur Conan Doyle
- How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn’t life. People need meaning as much as they need air. – Daniel H Wilson
- When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience. – Oliver
- Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning. – Osho
- The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning. – Niels Bohr
- Without words meaning anything, we stop meaning anything. It’s getting to the point where nobody means what they say or says what they really mean. – Suzy Kassem
- The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love. – Mary Balogh
- Don’t worry about meaning. If a story’s any good, it can’t help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. – William Kittredge
- If you zoom in far enough, the information is there but it contains no meaning. The meaning emerges as a collective principle of organization. – RADelmonico
- It is not a case of finding the meaning for the moments, but giving the moments meaning. – Steven Redhead
- Meaning is always a latecomer. Beauty and music seduce us first; later ashamed of our own sensuality, we insist on meaning. – Clive Barker
- If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning. – Bryant McGill
- Meaning. If you’re going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots. – Franny Billingsley
- The true meaning and purpose of life is to give some meaning and purpose to your life. – Steven Redhead
- Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice – Viktor E Frankl
- Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love. – Thomas Jay Oord
- We had the experience but missed the meaning,an approach to the meaning restores the experience – T S Elliot