The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

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Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so. ― Barbara Barrington Jones

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The soul is awakened through service.

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Conceit spoils the finest genius.

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."

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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut

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Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. — Mae West

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