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3508ELife may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

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Life2734EAt the end of all our wanderings, we will arrive at the place we started, and know it for the first time

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Life13031EEvery living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners...

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Life4094EThe aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly, that is what each of us is here for.

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Life13042ELife itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

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Life5129ELife is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.

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Life6893EWe want to make life permanent, but in doing so we go against nature, and there lies our pain. Only the mind which is always moving, without resting places and fixed ideas, can be in tune with life and therefore joyful.

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Life7772EBe not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Life7915EThe problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

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Life13024EThe traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, "No, all of this design can happen, all of this purpose can emerge from the bottom up without any direction at all."

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Life9853EIt is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

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Life2119EAnd in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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