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“For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.”

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Book:Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

“Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.”

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Book:The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot

Source: The Works of George Eliot in Twelve Volumes: Scenes of clerical life - Life of George Eliot

“Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known.”

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals