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a wise man does not do to others what he does not want done to him. - Confucius *

“In everything therefore, whatever you want people to do to you, do so to them...” - Gospel of Matthew: (Matthew 7:12). Golden Rule of Morality.

The ability to see the miraculous in the ordinary is an invariable sign wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to know a person, don't listen to what others say about him, better listen to what he says about others
- Woody Allen

I derive the laws of mechanics from the laws of God.
- Isaac Newton

There is nothing complicated in life. We are the ones who are complex. Life is a simple thing, and the simpler it is, the more correct it is.
- Oscar Wilde

Be among those whose presence helps you develop perfect qualities. Leave those who make your shortcomings worse. Don't examine other people's weaknesses, but focus on your own. Don't get attached to anything, because attachment is the source of unfreedom. Until you calm your mind, you cannot experience happiness.
- Padmasambhava

Just as a well-spent day gives a peaceful sleep, so a well-lived life gives a peaceful death.
- Leonardo da Vinci

- Baba Virsa Singh

There are no keys to happiness! The door is always open.
- Mother Teresa

One, looking into a puddle, sees dirt in it, and the other sees stars reflected in it.
- Immanuel Kant For God there are no dead.
- Akhmatova A.

I believe in God, who reveals himself in the natural harmony of all things, and not in the Lord, who deals with the fate and actions of specific people.
- Albert Einstein

Man is a part of the whole, which we call the Universe, a part limited in time and space.
- Albert Einstein

You can close your eyes to what you see. But you can’t close your heart to what you feel.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people with souls as deep as the ocean, in whom you want to plunge... And there are people like puddles that you have to go around so as not to get dirty

The wiser a person becomes, the less reason he finds to be offended.
- Richard Bach

Strength comes from defeats, not victories.
- Coco Chanel

Be the master of your will and the servant of your conscience.
- Coco Chanel

Age is just a number. It does not determine a person's mind and his outlook on life. Everything depends not on the years lived, but on the circumstances experienced in life.
- Sylvester Stallone

“Who are you? You are the one who asked to come to Earth in order to do something wonderful here, something very important for you, something that cannot be done anywhere else and never...”
- Richard Bach

Only he truly lives who sees both himself and God in every neighbor.
- Lev Tolstoy

Know that while you are being praised, you are not yet on your own path, but on a path pleasing to others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If every person began his day watching the world fill with life, light and beauty, then villainy would disappear - there would simply be no place for them in the sun-washed soul...

You will get out of any difficult situation right away if you just remember that you live not with your body, but with your soul, and remember that you have something in you that is stronger than anything in the world.
- Lev Tolstoy

“Wisdom is not a product of learning, but a lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
- Albert Einstein

The point is not to make money and use what you have acquired, but to make money for yourself and die, full of your own essence
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are a guest. Leave this Earth a little more beautiful, a little more humane, a little more loving, a little more fragrant for those unknown guests who will come after you...
- Osho

- Chinese proverb

A soul that lacks wisdom is dead. But if you enrich it with teaching, it will come to life, like an abandoned land on which rain has fallen.
- Abu-l-Faraj

The reasons are within ourselves, outside there are only excuses...
- Osho

We are all geniuses. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein

One of the most useful life skills is the ability to quickly forget everything bad: don’t dwell on troubles, don’t live with grievances, don’t revel in irritation, don’t harbor a grudge. You shouldn’t drag all sorts of rubbish into your soul.
- Buddha

Happy is not the one who has everything best, but the one who gets the best out of what he has.
- Confucius

Health, youth, and harmony live in each of us. You just need to be able to find them and awaken them.
- Vladimir Lermontov

If you hate, it means you have been defeated.
- Confucius

A gentle person does what is asked.
A callous person does not do what is asked.
A stupid person does what is not asked.
A smart person does not do what is not asked.
And only a Wise man does what is necessary.

What we see is only one appearance,
Far from the surface of the sea to the bottom.
They considered the obvious in the world to be unimportant,
For the secret essence of things is not visible.
- Omar Khayyam

You should do what makes you happy. Forget about money or other traps that are considered success. If you're happy working in a village store, work. You only have one life.
- Karl Lagerfeld

Our world is immersed in a huge ocean of energy, we fly in endless space at an incomprehensible speed. Everything around rotates, moves - everything is energy.
- Nikola Tesla

- Albert Einstein

Usually it takes a lot for a long time to understand incredibly simple things.
- Joe Chang

Failure is simply an opportunity to start again, but more wisely.
- Henry Ford

If the problem can be resolved, there is no need to worry about it. If a problem cannot be solved, there is no point in worrying about it.
- Dalai Lama

A man who has never made mistakes has never tried anything new. Most people don't try anything new because they are afraid of making mistakes. But there is no need to be afraid of this. Often a person who fails learns more about how to win than someone who succeeds immediately.
- Albert Einstein

What we called matter is actually energy, the frequency of vibrations of which has been reduced to the point of being perceived by the senses.
- Albert Einstein

Without wisdom there is no justice.

We anger God with our sins, and people with our virtues.

A good person is often mistaken for a fool.

Beauty is seen, wisdom is heard, goodness is felt.

In those moments when you are choked by despair, when you feel like you can’t do anything and that it’s impossible to do anything, know: only in such moments do you truly move forward.
- Francis Scott

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about its width and depth.
- Archimedes

IN Tibetan tradition they advise looking at life through the eyes of a traveler who has stayed at a hotel for a couple of days: he likes the room, likes the hotel, but does not become overly attached to them, because he knows that all this does not belong to him, and he will soon leave...
- Sangye Khadro

The Lord can neither make mistakes nor lie. You are going through a life lesson and yet, without drawing the right conclusions for yourself, you are stuck on the same thing.
- Archimandrite John Krestyankin

I believe that truly true religion is a good heart.
- Dalai Lama

An inexplicable thing is the soul. Nobody knows where he is, but everyone knows how much it hurts.
- A.P. Chekhov

Everyone has something special, you just need to open your eyes.
- Lama Ole Nydahl

Today is just one of many, many days that are yet to come. But maybe all those future days depend on what you do today.
- Ernest Hemingway

I want you to stop looking for something outside of yourself and listen to what is inside you. People are afraid of what's inside, and that's the only place where they can find what they need.
- Peaceful Warrior

You cannot lose hope, because a person cannot be broken so that he cannot be restored.
- John Green. "Looking for Alaska"

You have sails, but you are clinging to the anchor...
- Confucius

He who sees too far is not at peace in his heart. Do not be sad about anything in advance and do not rejoice at what does not yet exist.
- Eastern wisdom

It doesn't matter how many days are in your life, what matters is how much life is in your days...

Be your own light. Don't worry about what others say, don't worry about traditions, religions, morals. Just be your own light!
- Shakyamuni Buddha

Mind, with it correct use, is a perfect and unsurpassed tool. When used incorrectly, it becomes extremely destructive. To be more precise, it's not that you might be using it incorrectly - usually you don't use it at all. He's taking advantage of you. This is what the disease is. You believe that you are your mind. And this is a misconception. The instrument has taken over you.
- Eckhart Tolle "The Power of Now"

"There is nothing softer and more flexible than water, but try to resist it."
- Lao Tzu

Each of us is responsible for all of humanity. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart - this is our temple; our philosophy is kindness.
- Dalai Lama XIV

The greatness of the world is always in accordance with the greatness of the spirit looking at it.
- Heinrich Heine

Church, temple or Kaaba Stone, Koran or Bible, Or Martyr's Bone - all this and more, my heart can accept and accommodate, Since my religion is Love.
- Abdu-l-Lah

There is no end to the mystery whose name is man, just like the mystery whose name is the world.
- Carlos Castaneda

Man is a creature that can admire the beauty of nature and at the same time destroy it.
- Darius, philosopher

The proverbial missing link between the ape and the civilized man is us.
- Konrad Lorenz

The older a person becomes, the more important the content is to him than the shell.
- Harun Agatsarsky

The life of people devoted only to pleasure without reason and without morality has no value.
- Immanuel Kant

If you managed to deceive a person, this does not mean that he is a fool. It just means that you were trusted more than you deserve.

When it seems to a person that everything is going wrong, something wonderful tries to enter his life.
- Dalai Lama

Good does not put on the mask of evil, but often evil, under the mask of good, does its crazy things.
- Omar Khayyam

I know the world: in it a thief sits on a thief;
A wise man always loses an argument
With a fool; the dishonest shames the honest;
And a drop of happiness drowns in a sea of grief.
- Omar Khayyam

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But the worst kind of suffering is not knowing what decision to make.
- Paulo Coelho

Whatever you do behind people’s backs, you do it in front of God!

Man lives real life, if you are happy with someone else's happiness.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Most good teacher in life - experience. True, he charges a lot, but he explains clearly.”

He is not great who has never fallen, but he is great who has fallen and gotten up!
- Confucius

He who can fill every moment with deep content endlessly prolongs his life.
- Isolde Kurtz

Man forgot his true purpose, his true divine origin and fell into serious trouble. From here we have ecological problems, hence the military conflicts, hence the endless, constantly increasing number of contradictions, disagreements, disputes, quarrels.

Don't waste time on a person who doesn't want to spend it with you.

One of the most common misconceptions is to consider people good, evil, stupid, smart. Man flows, and he has all the possibilities: he was stupid, he became smart, he was angry, he became kind and vice versa. This is the greatness of man. And you can’t judge a person based on this. You condemned, but he is already different.
- Lev Tolstoy

Those who want are looking for opportunities, and those who don’t want are looking for excuses.

If there is a desire, there are a thousand ways; if there is no desire, there are a thousand reasons.

Even with keen eyes, we see only what we already know. We perceive other people not as they are, but as we want them to be. We obscure the real person with a painted picture.
- Jana-Philipp Zendker

Life is a moment. It cannot be lived first in a draft and then rewritten into a white paper.
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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.
- Marcus Aurelius

The blessing is not in having a long life, but in how to manage it: it can happen, and it often happens, that someone who lives a long time lives short.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

Life is neither suffering nor pleasure, but a task that we must do and honestly complete it.
- Alexis Tocqueville

When you throw dirt at a person, remember that it may not reach him, but will remain on your hands!
- Author unknown

“And it’s time for people to get tired of right and wrong enmity, it’s time to see that glory is confused, not knowing on whom to lay a wreath. ... the mind is damaged by the twentieth century, the most terrible century in history.”

We think that God sees us from above - but he sees us from the inside.
- Gilbert Sesbron

Where everyone is hunchbacked, slimness becomes ugliness.
- O. Balzac

Here is my secret, it is very simple: only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"

People are the only creatures on Earth who need God's help, but they behave as if there is no God...
- Johnny Depp

If man in his perfection is the noblest creature, then divorced from law and morality, he is the worst of all.
- Aristotle

For me, every hour of the day and night is an indescribable miracle of life.
- Walt Whitman

Our world, even after all the discoveries that scientists have made, for everyone who seriously thinks about its structure, still remains a miracle, a mystery and a mystery.
- Thomas Carlyle

There is nothing insignificant in this world for such a small creature as a person. Only by understanding the tiny world around us can we acquire great art - the ability to obtain the greatest possible happiness in this life.
- Samuel Johnson

Here's my secret. Everything is completely simple: you can see well only with your heart. The main thing is hidden from human eyes.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Anyone who wants to be healthy already partially recovers.
- Giovanni Boccaccio

The art of medicine is to help the patient pass the time while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire

Not the opinions of people, but the arguments of reason - this is the universal formula for the search for truth.
- Pierre Abelard

Whoever attaches importance to empty matters will turn out to be an empty person in important matters.
- Cato the Elder

People become close gradually, strangers instantly.

A thinking atheist who lives according to his conscience does not himself understand how close he is to God. Because he does good without expecting reward. Unlike believers, hypocrites.
- Hans Christian Andersen

Believe in yourself! Believe in your abilities! You cannot succeed and be happy without firm and well-founded confidence in own strength and possibilities.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The ability to see the miraculous in the ordinary is an invariable sign of wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as you realize that you do not need anything in the world, the world will become yours.
- Lao Tzu

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
- L. Tolstoy

The last war among men will be a war for truth. This war will be in every single person. War – with one’s own ignorance, aggression, irritation. And only a radical transformation of each individual person can become the beginning of a peaceful life for all people.
- Nicholas Roerich

A dog recognizes its owner in any clothing. The owner may be in a robe, a suit and tie, or not dressed at all, but the dog always recognizes him. If we are unable to recognize God, our beloved master, when He is clothed in other clothes - clothes from another religion - then we are worse than a dog.
- H.H. Radhanatha Swami

I prefer to do what I love in my life. And not what is fashionable, prestigious or expected.
- Moscow does not believe in tears

If you want to succeed, avoid 6 vices: drowsiness, laziness, fear, anger, idleness and indecisiveness.
- Jackie Chan

Beware of those who want to make you feel guilty, for they crave power over you.
- Confucius

An arrow sent by you at another will fly around the globe and pierce you in the back.
- Eastern wisdom

Truly the most close person- this is the one who knows your past, believes in your future, and now accepts you for who you are.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

We will be destroyed by politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character, business without morals, science without humanity and prayer without sacrifice.
- Mahatma Gandhi

- Eastern wisdom

Man is designed in such a way that when something ignites his Soul, everything becomes possible.
- J. Lafontaine

We make an effort to wake up and actually wake up when the dream becomes terrible and we no longer have the strength to bear it. The same must be done in life when it becomes unbearable. At such moments, one must, through the effort of consciousness, awaken to a new, higher, spiritual life.
- Lev Tolstoy

Being offended and indignant is like drinking poison in the hope that it will kill your enemies.
- Nelson Mandela

Life sometimes beats, but these blows are medicine. “Punishment” comes from the word “order”. And a mandate is a lesson, a teaching. The Lord teaches us like a caring father. He puts his little son in a corner so that he won’t do anything bad next time.
- Peter Mamonov

Disease always occurs either from excess or from deficiency, that is, from imbalance.
- Hippocrates

Let every mistake teach you a great lesson: every sunset is the beginning of a very, very bright and big dawn...
- Sri Chinmoy

By intelligence I mean, mainly, the rarest innate ability - not to burden others with oneself.
- Dina Rubina

My third rule was to always strive to conquer myself rather than fate, to change my desires rather than the order of the world...
- Rene Descartes

To become happy, you need to get rid of everything unnecessary. From unnecessary things, unnecessary fuss, and most importantly, from unnecessary thoughts.
- Daniel Shellabarger

“Never try to prove that you are right, because then you will be wrong.”
-Elder Joseph the Hesychast

He who has contemplated the greatness of nature himself strives for perfection and harmony. Our inner world should be like this example. In a clean atmosphere everything is clean.
- Honore de Balzac. Lily of the Valley

Just as warm clothes protect against cold, endurance protects against resentment. Increase patience and peace of mind, and resentment, no matter how bitter it may be, will not touch you!
- Leonardo Da Vinci

The wider you open your arms, the easier it is to crucify you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Rishis proclaim that we are not our body, mind or emotions. We are divine souls on a delightful journey. We come from God, live in God and develop into unity with God. We are the Truth we are looking for.
- Sanatana Dharma Upanishad

When I looked around, I felt like a grain of sand in the sea... but when I closed my eyes and looked inside, I saw the whole Universe...
- Inayat Khan Hidayat

There is nothing complicated in life. We are the ones who are complex. Life is a simple thing, and the simpler it is, the more correct it is.
- Oscar Wilde

Your brain is like a garden that can be tended to or nurtured. You are a gardener and can grow your garden or leave it neglected. But know: you will have to reap the fruits of either your labor or your own inaction.
- John Kehoe. "The subconscious can do anything"

Whatever you do, you do yourself.
- Eastern wisdom

The longer I live, the more inclined I am to the idea that solar system The earth plays the role of a madhouse.
- Bernard Show

Asceticism is not about not owning anything. Asceticism is about not letting anything control you.
- Abu Yazid Bistami

If someday, while chasing happiness, you find it, you, like the old woman looking for her glasses, will discover that it was on your nose all along.
- Bernard Show

If they ask me: “What is your religion?”, I will answer: “The one that is among the trees, the mountains, the animals; the religion of all creation is my religion. Because her light is in every creature on earth, and this light fills me too. Because there is one Father, and we are all His children, wherever we are.”
- Baba Virsa Singh

Power over yourself is the highest power.
- Seneca

If there is no peace within us, it is useless to look for it outside.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many people wait all week for Friday, the whole month of the holiday, the whole year of summer, and all their lives for happiness. But you need to rejoice in every day and enjoy every moment.
- Osho

Everything has its sunset... and only the night ends with dawn.
- Eastern wisdom

All paths are the same: they lead to nowhere. But some have hearts, while others don't. One path gives you Strength, the other destroys you.
- Carlos Castaneda

Society is a yoke of scales that cannot lift some without lowering others.
- Jacques Vanier

Don't accept any negativity. Until you accept it, it belongs to the one who brought it.
- Buddha

A person with the highest Fortitude corrects the internal in order to control the external.
A person with lower Fortitude corrects the external in order to calm the internal.
- Lao Tzu

Avoid at all costs ascribing victim status to yourself. No matter how disgusting your situation is, try not to blame it external forces: history, state, authorities, race, parents, phase of the moon, childhood, untimely potty training, etc. The moment you place blame on something, you undermine your own resolve to change anything.
- Joseph Brodsky

Comfort is not furniture, not a house, not a place. Comfort is when your soul is calm.

Many believe that the trials of this life are certainly retribution for past sins. But is metal heated in a forge because he has sinned and must be punished? Isn't this being done to improve the properties of the material?...
- Lobsang Rampa

Democracy is balloon, which hangs over your heads and makes you stare up while other people go through your pockets.
- Bernard Show

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and if we exchange these apples, then you and I each have one apple left. And if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- Bernard Show

You are responsible for what you can change. But you can only change your attitude. This is where your responsibility lies!
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

This incarnation is God walking on his own earth. The human incarnation is God Himself residing in human form. Don't underestimate yourself, this form is a divine form. Therefore you must act with the fullness of divinity in you.
- Papaji

He who finds himself loses dependence on other people's opinions.
- Albert Einstein

The only lesson that can be learned from history is that people do not learn any lessons from history.
- Bernard Show

The beauty of this world is that you can see it in different ways. It is so limitless that it can be reflected in the human mind exactly as the person himself is. That is, the more beautiful a person’s inner world is, the more beautiful the world around him seems.
- Excerpt from the book "The World of Dreams: Notes of a Wanderer"

Most people are like wood shavings, coiled around their own emptiness.
- Saint Theophan the Recluse

See the truth within yourself. And everything around you will begin to change to the extent that you see the truth within yourself.
- Robert Adams

Do your own thing, and don’t consider it important how others look at you. For only God's judgment is true. People don’t know themselves well, much less others...
- Saint Theophan the Recluse

If a person does not put it in his heart that there is no one else in the world except himself and God, then he will not be able to find peace in his soul.
- Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov.

The soul cannot have peace unless it prays for its enemies. God is the unapproachable Light. His Being is above any image, not only material, but also mental.
- Reverend Elder Silouan Athos (Semyon Ivanovich Antonov; 1866, Tambov province - 1938, Athos)

Forget your relationship with the body, forget it. Forget that you are the body, but do not forget that what will leave the body is you.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Do not listen to any religions of the world and come to God, let go of all religions that create obstacles on the path to Him.

The power that created you also created the world. If She takes care of you, then She can similarly take care of the world... If God created the world, then it is His concern to look after it, not yours.
- Ramana Maharshi

Pleasure and pain are fleeting. It is simpler and easier not to notice them than to act on their instructions.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you see someone else's sin, correct your own.
-Chinese proverb

Everyone should visit countries where the joy of life is dissolved in the air
- Vyacheslav Polunin

Don't go with the flow, don't swim against the flow. Sail where you need to go.
- Sun Tzu

The world is like a dream. If we do not realize that the world is like a dream, then we only replace some ideas with others that are equally illusory.
- Lama Hannah Nydahl.

Whether we like it or not, we all often think about the meaning of life. Is it good or bad and what does it depend on? What is the most important thing in life? What is its essence?

There are many such questions and they are not the only ones that come to mind. Such problems have always occupied the greatest minds of mankind. We have collected short quotes about life with meaning from great people, so that with their help you yourself can try to find the answer that suits you.

After all, aphorisms and phrases of famous philosophers, writers and scientists are answers to many of the most difficult questions and a storehouse of worldly wisdom. And if such a topic is touched upon about life with meaning, then it is better not to refuse such solid help.

So let's quickly plunge into the world of quotes and aphorisms about life with meaning in order to try to dot all the i's.

Wise quotes about life with meaning from great people

Determining your goal is like finding the North Star. It will become a guide for you if you accidentally lose your way.
Marshall Dimock

Nothing bad happens to a good person, either during life or after death.
Socrates

The essence of life is to find yourself.
Muhammad Iqbal

Death is an arrow shot at you, and life is the moment that it flies to you.
Al-Husri

In a dialogue with life, it is not its question that is important, but our answer.
Marina Tsvetaeva

Whatever it is, never take life too seriously - you won’t get out of it alive anyway.
Kin Hubbard

A person's life has meaning only to the extent that it helps to make the lives of other people more beautiful and noble. Life is sacred. This is the highest value to which all other values are subordinated.
Albert Einstein

Life is like a play in a theater: what matters is not how long it lasts, but how well it is played.
Seneca

Those who are only going to live all their lives live poorly.
Publius Syrus

Live as if you now have to say goodbye to life, as if the time left to you is an unexpected gift.
Marcus Aurelius

Needless to say, all the beautiful quotes about life with meaning selected here have stood the test of time. But whether they will pass the test of compliance with your ideas about the essence of existence is not for us to decide.

There is only one important thing for everyone in life - to improve your soul. Only in this one task is there no hindrance for a person, and only from this task does a person always feel joyful.
Lev Tolstoy

If a person begins to be interested in the meaning of life or its value, this means that he is sick.
Sigmund Freud

We do not live to eat, but we eat to live.
Socrates

Life is something that passes us by while we make plans.
John Lennon

Life is too short to allow yourself to live it insignificantly.
Benjamin Disraeli

People should know: in the theater of life, only God and the angels are allowed to be spectators.
Francis Bacon

Human life is like a box of matches. Treating her seriously is ridiculous. Treating someone frivolously is dangerous.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

To live without benefit is untimely death.
Goethe

The art of living has always consisted mainly of the ability to look forward.
Leonid Leonov

The life of good people is eternal youth.
Nodier

Life is eternity, death is only a moment.
Mikhail Lermontov

How better person, the less he fears death.
Lev Tolstoy

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.
Marcus Aurelius

Life is not about living, but about feeling that you are living.
Vasily Klyuchevsky

To be able to enjoy the life you have lived means to live twice.
Martial

We live only to experience beauty. Everything else is waiting.
Kahlil Gibran

Let's turn to the sages for an explanation

Now we are ready to blame anyone for our troubles, in our sleeping consciousness. The government, education, society, everyone is to blame except ourselves.

We complain about life, but at the same time we look for values where, in principle, they cannot exist: in acquiring new car, expensive clothes, jewelry and all human material goods.

We forget about our essence, about our purpose in our world, and most importantly, we forget about what the sages tried to convey to the souls of people in ancient times. Their meaningful phrases about life today could not be more relevant, they have not been forgotten, but they are not perceived by everyone, and not everyone is imbued with them.

Carlyle once said: “My wealth is in what I do, not in what I have.”. Isn't this statement worth thinking about? Doesn’t these words contain the deep meaning of our existence? Such beautiful sayings There are many things worth our attention, but do we hear them? These are not just quotes from great people, they are a call to awakening, to action, to living with meaning.

Wisdom of Confucius

Confucius did not do anything supernatural, but his teachings are official Chinese religion, and thousands of temples dedicated to him were built not only in China. For twenty-five centuries, his compatriots have followed the path of Confucius, and his aphorisms about life with meaning are passed on from generation to generation.

What did he do to deserve such honors? He knew the world, himself, knew how to listen, and more importantly, hear people. His quotes about the meaning of life are heard from the lips of our contemporaries:

“It’s very easy to recognize a happy person. He seems to radiate an aura of calm and warmth, moves slowly, but manages to get everywhere, speaks calmly, but everyone understands him. The secret of happy people is simple - the absence of tension."
“Beware of those who want to make you feel guilty, for they want power over you.”
“In a country that is well governed, people are ashamed of poverty. In a country that is poorly governed, people are ashamed of wealth.”
“A person who makes a mistake and does not correct it has made another mistake.”
“He who does not think about distant difficulties will certainly face near troubles.”
“Archery teaches us how to seek the truth. When a shooter misses, he does not blame others, but looks for the blame in himself.”
“If you want to succeed, avoid the six vices: sleepiness, laziness, fear, anger, idleness and indecisiveness.”

He created his own system of state structure. In his understanding, the wisdom of a ruler should be to instill in his subjects respect for traditional rituals that determine everything - the behavior of people in society and family, the way they think.

He believed that the ruler must, first of all, respect traditions, and accordingly the people will respect them. Only with this approach to governance can violence be avoided. And this man lived more than fifteen centuries ago.

Catchphrases of Confucius

“Teach only someone who, having known one corner of the square, can imagine the other three.”. Confucius spoke such aphorisms about life with meaning only to those who wanted to hear him.

Not being an important person, he could not convey his teachings to the rulers, but he did not give up and began to teach those who wanted to learn. He taught all his students, and there were up to three thousand of them, according to the ancient Chinese principle: “Don’t share origins.”

His clever sayings about the meaning of life: “I’m not upset if people don’t understand me, I’m upset if I don’t understand people”, “Sometimes we see a lot, but we don’t notice the main thing” and thousands more smart sayings were entered by the students in the book "Conversations and Judgments".

These works became central to Confucianism. He is revered as the first teacher of humanity, his statements about the meaning of life are paraphrased and quoted by philosophers from different countries.

Parables and our lives

Our life is replete with stories about incidents in the lives of people who drew certain conclusions from what happened. More often, people come to conclusions when sharp turns happen in their lives, when trouble overtakes them, or when loneliness gnaws at them.

It is from such stories that parables about the meaning of life are made. They come to us through the centuries, trying to make us think about our mortal life.

Vessel with stones

We often hear that we should live easily, enjoying every moment, because no one is given the opportunity to live twice. One wise man explained the meaning of life to his students using an example. He filled the vessel to the brim with large stones and asked the disciples how full the vessel was.

The students stated that the vessel was full. The sage added smaller stones. The pebbles were located in empty spaces among large stones. The sage again asked the disciples the same question. The disciples responded with surprise that the vessel was full. The sage also added sand to that vessel, after which he invited his students to compare their lives with the vessel.

This parable about the meaning of life explains that large stones in a vessel determine the most important thing in a person’s life - his health, his family and children. Small pebbles represent work and material wealth, which can be classified as less important things. And sand determines a person’s daily bustle. If you start filling the vessel with sand, then there may be no room left for the remaining fillers.

Each parable about the meaning of life has its own semantic load, and we understand it in our own way. Those who think about it, and those who don’t delve into it, some compose their own equally instructive parables about the meaning of life, but it happens that there is no one left to listen to them.

Three "I"

For now, we can afford to turn to parables about the meaning of life and glean at least a drop of wisdom for ourselves. One such parable about the meaning of life opened the eyes of many to life.

A little boy wondered about the soul and asked his grandfather about it. He told him ancient history. There is a rumor that in every person there are three “I”s, from which the soul is composed and the whole life of a person depends. The first “I” is given to everyone around us to see. Secondly, only people close to the person can see. These “I”s are constantly at war for leadership over a person, which leads him to fears, worries and doubts. And the third “I” can reconcile the first two or find a compromise. It is invisible to anyone, sometimes even to the person himself.

The grandson was surprised by his grandfather’s story; he became interested in what these “I”s meant. To which the grandfather replied that the first “I” is the human mind, and if it wins, then cold calculation takes possession of the person. The second is the human heart, and if it has the upper hand, then the person is destined to be deceived, touchy and vulnerable. The third “I” is a soul that is capable of bringing harmony to the relationship of the first two. This parable is about the spiritual meaning of life of our existence.

A meaningless life

All humanity has one natural quality, which determines the desire to find meaning in everything and, in particular, life itself; for many, this quality wanders in their subconscious, and their own aspirations do not have a clear formulation. And if their actions are meaningless, then the quality of life is zero.

A person without a goal becomes vulnerable and irritable; he perceives the slightest difficulties with wild fear. The result of this state is the same - a person becomes easy to manage, his talents, abilities, individuality and potential gradually come to an end.

A person puts his destiny at the disposal of other people who benefit from his weak character. And a person begins to accept someone else’s worldview as his own, and automatically he becomes driven, irresponsible, blind and deaf to the pain of his loved ones, senselessly trying to earn authority among those who use him.

“Whoever wants to accept the meaning of life as an external authority ends up accepting the meaning of his own arbitrariness as the meaning of life.”

Vladimir Soloviev

Create your own destiny

You can decide your destiny with the help of powerful motivation, which is often dictated by aphorisms about living a meaningful life. After all, the meaning of life is different for everyone, either gained by experience, or coming from outside.

Einstein said: “Learn from yesterday, live today, hope for tomorrow. The main thing is not to stop asking questions... Never lose your sacred curiosity.". His motivational quotes about the meaning of life lead many along the only right path.

Aphorisms about life with the meaning of Marcus Aurelius, who said: “Do what you must, and what is destined will happen”.

Psychoanalysts argue that greater success can be expected from an activity if one gives maximum meaning to this activity. And if our work also brings us satisfaction, then complete success guaranteed.

Questions arise about how education, religion, mentality, and a person’s worldview influence the meaning of life. I would like the values and knowledge gained over the centuries to unite all people, regardless of their worldview, religion or era. After all, quotes about meaningful life belong to people of different times and beliefs, and their significance is the same for all sane people.

Our position in the Universe requires an eternal search for answers, for ourselves, for our place in life, for involvement in something. The world has not come up with ready-made answers, but the main thing is to never stop. Aphorisms about the meaning of life call us to movement and actions that are useful not only to ourselves, but also to those around us. “We live for those on whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends”, as Einstein said.

Wise thoughts help you live

Psychologists use quotes about life with meaning when communicating with clients, since people are creatures who, without having their own opinions, having lost any meaning, believe and are imbued with the beautiful phrases of famous people.

Quotes about the meaning of life are declared by actors on stage, pronounced in films, and from their lips we hear words that are truly significant for all humanity.

Wonderful statements about the meaning of Faina Ranevskaya’s life still warm the souls of women who are tormented by loneliness and disappointment:

“A woman, to succeed in life, must have two qualities. She must be smart enough to please stupid men, and stupid enough to please smart men.”
“The union of a stupid man and a stupid woman gives birth to a heroine mother. The union of a stupid woman and a smart man gives birth to a single mother. The union of a smart woman and a stupid man gives rise to an ordinary family. The union of a smart man and a smart woman gives rise to light flirting.”
“If a woman walks with her head down, she has a lover! If a woman walks with her head held high, she has a lover! If a woman holds her head straight, she has a lover! And in general, if a woman has a head, then she has a lover.”
“God created women beautiful so that men could love them, and stupid so that they could love men.”

And if you skillfully use aphorisms about life with meaning in a conversation with people, then it is unlikely that anyone will call you a stupid or uneducated person.

The wise Omar Khayyam once said:

“Three things never come back: time, word, opportunity. Three things should not be lost: peace, hope, honor. Three things in life are most valuable: love, belief,... Three things in life are unreliable: power, luck, fortune. Three things define a person: work, honesty, achievements. Three things destroy a person: wine, pride, anger. Three things are the hardest to say: I love you, I'm sorry, help me." – beautiful phrases, each of which is imbued with eternal wisdom.

I live in a world full of things I don't have but would like to have. Correction... I exist, because this is not life.

If a person’s life consists of nothing but happiness, then the very first problem becomes its end.

Those who persistently test their life to the limit, sooner or later achieve their goal - they end it spectacularly.

You shouldn't chase happiness. It is like a cat - there is no use in chasing it, but as soon as you mind your business, it will come and peacefully lie on your lap.

Every day can be the first or the last in life - it all depends on how you look at this issue.

Each new day is like taking a match out of the box of life: you have to burn it to the ground, but be careful not to burn the precious reserve of the remaining days.

People keep a diary of past events, and life is a diary of future events.

Only a dog is ready to love you for what you do, and not for what others think about you.

The meaning of life is not to achieve perfection, but to tell others about this achievement.

Continuation beautiful quotes read on the pages:

There is only one true law - the one that allows you to become free. Richard Bach

In the edifice of human happiness, friendship builds the walls, and love forms the dome. (Kozma Prutkov)

For every minute you are angry, sixty seconds of happiness are lost.

Happiness has never placed a person at such a height that he does not need others. (Seneca Lucius Annaeus the Younger).

In search of joy and happiness, a person runs away from himself, although in reality the real source of joy is within himself. (Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi)

If you want to be happy, be it!

Life is love, love supports life in the indivisible (it is their means of reproduction); in this case, love is the central force of nature; it connects the last link of creation to the beginning, which is repeated in it, therefore, love is a self-returning force of nature - a beginningless and endless radius in the circle of the universe. Nikolai Stankevich

I see the goal and don’t notice the obstacles!

In order to live freely and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It's not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach

Possessing all kinds of benefits is not everything. Receiving pleasure from owning them is what happiness consists of. (Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais)

Corruption is everywhere, talent is rare. Therefore, venality has become a weapon of mediocrity that has permeated everything.

Misfortune can also be an accident. Happiness is not luck or grace; happiness is a virtue or merit. (Grigory Landau)

The peoples have made freedom their idol, but where on earth are the free people?

Character can be shown in important moments, but it is created in the little things. Phillips Brooks

If you work towards your goals, then these goals will work for you. Jim Rohn

Happiness does not lie in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do!

Don't solve the problem, but look for opportunities. George Gilder

If we don’t take care of our reputation, others will do it for us, and they will certainly put us in a bad light.

In general, it doesn't matter where you live. More or less amenities is not the main thing. The only thing that matters is what we spend our lives on.

I must lose myself in activity, otherwise I will die of despair. Tennyson

There is only one undoubted happiness in life - to live for another (Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky)

Human souls, like rivers and plants, also need rain. Special rain - hope, faith and the meaning of life. If there is no rain, everything in the soul dies. Paulo Coelho

Life is beautiful when you create it yourself. Sophie Marceau

Happiness sometimes falls so unexpectedly that you don’t have time to jump to the side.

Life itself should make a person happy. Happiness and misfortune, what a huckstering approach to life. Because of it, people often lose their sense of the joy of life. Joy should be as integral to life as breathing. Goldermes

Happiness is pleasure without remorse. (L.N. Tolstoy)

The greatest happiness in life is the confidence that you are loved.

Any unambiguity primitives life

The entire actual life of a person can deviate from his individual purpose, as well as from generally valid norms. With selfishness, we perceive everyone, and therefore ourselves, entangled in a motley veil of illusions, woven from stupidity, vanity, ambition, and pride. Max Scheler

Suffering has great creative potential.

Every desire is given to you along with the forces necessary to fulfill it. However, you may have to work hard for this. Richard Bach

When you attack the heavens, you must take aim at God himself.

A small dose of stress restores our youth and vitality.

Life is a night spent in deep sleep, often turning into a nightmare. A. Schopenhauer

If you deliberately set out to be less than you can be, I warn you that you will be miserable for the rest of your life. Maslow

Everyone is only as happy as he knows how to be happy. (Dina Dean)

Whatever happens tomorrow must not poison today. Whatever happened yesterday should not choke tomorrow. We exist in the present, and we cannot despise it. The joy of a burning day is priceless, just as life itself is priceless - there is no need to poison it with doubts and regrets. Vera Kamsha

Don't chase happiness, it is always within you.

Life is not an easy task, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Misner

Happiness is not a reward for virtue, but virtue itself. (Spinoza)

Man is far from perfect. He is sometimes more hypocritical, sometimes less, and fools chatter that one is moral and the other is not.

A person exists when he chooses himself. A. Schopenhauer

Life goes on when the way of life dies.

An individual does not have to be wiser than an entire nation.

We all live for the future. It is not surprising that bankruptcy awaits him. Christian Friedrich Goebbel

It is important to learn to accept yourself, to value yourself, no matter what others say about you.

To achieve happiness, three components are needed: a dream, self-confidence and hard work.

No man is happy until he feels happy. (M. Aurelius)

True values always support life because they lead to freedom and growth. T. Morez

Most people are like falling leaves; they fly in the air, spin, but eventually fall to the ground. Others - a few of them - are like stars; they move along a certain path, no wind will force them to deviate from it; within themselves they carry their own law and their own path.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but we often do not notice it, staring at the closed door.

In life we reap what we sow: he who sows tears reaps tears; whoever betrayed will be betrayed. Luigi Settembrini

If the whole life of many comes unconsciously, then this life is whatever it is. L. Tolstoy

If they were building a house of happiness, the largest room would have to be used as a waiting room.

I see only two paths in life: dull obedience or rebellion.

We live as long as we have hope. And if you have lost her, under no circumstances allow yourself to guess about it. And then something can change. V. Pelevin “The Recluse and the Six-Fingered”

The most happy people do not necessarily have all the best; they simply do more of what they are best at.

If you are afraid of misfortunes, then there will be no happiness. (Peter the First)

All our lives we do nothing but borrow from the future to pay the present.

Happiness is such a monstrous thing that if you don’t burst from it yourself, then it will require at least a couple of murders from you.

Happiness is a ball that we chase while it is rolling and that we kick when it stops. (P. Buast)

A small selection of phrases about life, love... Perhaps someone will find their meaning in these words and something will become clearer. In any case, everyone has their own impressions... Read, leave your reviews, add to the list new phrases of your own authorship, or simply those you have heard from wise people.

Let's start about life:

Never tell anything good or bad about yourself. In the first case, they won’t believe you, and in the second, they will embellish you.
Fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Life leaves us so quickly, as if it is not interested in us.
Man has gone from the simplest to the confused.

There is one simple truth: life is the antonym of death, and death is the negation of life as such.
Life is a harmful thing. Everyone dies from it.
Don't take life so seriously. You still won't get out of it alive.
Death is when a person closes his eyes to everything.

When there is nothing to lose, they lose principles.
Everything that happens has a reason.
As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his destiny.
Everything that doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
To live badly and unreasonably does not mean to live badly, but to die slowly.

In the land of fools, every stupidity is worth its weight in gold.
If you're arguing with an idiot, he's probably doing the same thing.
Life is tricky! When I have all the cards in my hands, she suddenly decides to play chess.

Life is what happens to us while we are making plans for the future.
The better our present is, the less we think about the past.
You shouldn't go back to the past, it won't be the same as you remember.

Now a little about relationships:

I love you not for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you.
If someone doesn't love you the way you want, it doesn't mean they don't love you with all their heart.
It only takes a minute to notice someone, an hour to like someone, a day to love someone, and a lifetime

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