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Yesterday, while flying 35,000 feet high in the sky, from the west coast to the east coast, I was afforded five quiet hours to spend productively, and so I pondered the meaning of life.<\/p>\n

Is there life elsewhere in this universe?\u00a0 Do we live in a multi-verse?\u00a0 Do we have an individual purpose; a collective purpose? Why are we here?<\/em> \u00a0 As I contemplated and considered, I clicked through the i-Universe a.k.a. google and found these seven quotes that eventually brought me to the \u201cgreat perhaps.\u201d<\/p>\n

7 Quotes:\u00a0 Pondering the Meaning of #Life<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It didn’t take long to realize I didn’t hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don’t mean nothing if you don’t ast why you here, period ~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple<\/em><\/p>\n

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. ~ Joseph Campbell<\/p>\n

I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live. ~ C. JoyBell C.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.\u201d ~ Anais Nin<\/p>\n

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I’ve got. ~ Hermann Hesse<\/em><\/p>\n

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. ~ Henry Miller<\/p>\n

I go to seek a Great Perhaps. ~ Francois Rabelais<\/i><\/p>\n

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