Right thoughts about life. Phrases about life. Wise quotes about life with the meaning of great people

Many of us are tormented by the question of the meaning of life. “Why do I live?”, “What is all this for?” "What should I do?"

We try to find this answer in culture, in religion, in life, but very often it turns out that none of the answers suits us. Whatever comes to our mind: we brush it aside.
"What's the point of all this if it ends anyway?"

And now, like Solomon, we exclaim: “All is vanity!”

Especially often my readers who suffer from anxiety are faced with this.

And what is the way out? How to gain a sense of meaningfulness of existence?

And for this I have my own way to the problem of painful questions about the meaning of life.

And this path is not vulnerable to various doubts, thoughts and speculations. And in this article and in this video I will present it. I will tell, how I myself approach the problem of finding the meaning of life.

When we start asking again and again “what is the meaning of life?”, “what do I live for?” we run the risk of falling into a trap. It may seem to us that we are tormented by these questions, simply because we do not have some concept in our heads, some ready-made answer: "The meaning of life is this and that."

And we are convinced that when we find this answer, then all our suffering will end.

And here our mistake may be that we are looking for an answer, where it does not exist and cannot be!

Because we can be unhappy, not only because we do not have any answers, but simply because in this moment we experience a certain state.

Such questions often torment people who suffer from depression, chronic despondency, anxiety, panic attacks. Or they simply experience confusion, general dissatisfaction with life.

Think back to a time when you were good. Did these questions come to you then? Probably not. You just lived and enjoyed life!

These questions often arise precisely at those moments when you feel bad, nothing pleases you, nothing interests you.

“Since all this does not bring joy and interest, then what is the use of it?” we decide.

And we get the same answer as the question was.

The very wording of the question, as well as the state from which this question is asked and implies an answer.

Therefore, in a state of depression, anxiety, you can not even try to solve this problem. Because in this state the answer will always be the same.

Instead, it is better to focus not on the painful search for an answer, but on stabilize your condition. If the reason for the lack of interest in life is depression, then you need to. If these are panic attacks, then.

Do physical education, work with a psychotherapist and so on.

Solve the internal problems that led to dissatisfaction with life in order to change your condition, which became the source of these unanswered questions. And then, very possibly, these answers will come to you.

And here I want to offer a very unusual, but effective approach to working with these thoughts. It is as follows.

Instead of trying to answer this question by frantically sorting through the answers, try to treat these thoughts as just thoughts.

Here comes the thought: "what is the sense of life" if we don't get involved in it, just accept it, be aware and let it go, then we will see that another thought follows it. Any. For example, "I want to eat" or "I am the best", or "no one loves me".

On the one hand, we do not try to drive this thought deeper, to distract from it, to dismiss it.

On the other hand, we do not begin to stubbornly analyze it, disassemble it, in an attempt to resolve it.

We are doing something different. We just accept it as a thought, give it a place inside, but do not react to it, letting her come and go.

And then we see that this is just one of the thoughts in a long line of thought flow, a “marquee” inside the head. It is not necessarily a call to action, it does not necessarily require immediate permission. It's just a piece of information, a piece of text.

And when we try inside our head to resolve some thoughts with the help of other thoughts, one text with the help of another text, then problems can arise.

And so in this technique, we leave these attempts.

For those who have no experience with meditation, this may seem difficult. But, once you start, it will be much easier for you to cope with the stream of thoughts that grab your attention. It will be easier for you to take what's going on in your head with less seriousness.

This applies not only to thoughts about the meaning of life. This refers to any thoughts that cause people to ruin their lives, such as: “I’m a loser”, “I can’t do anything”, “no one loves me”.

No, I don't mean to say that thoughts should never be listened to. You just need to always bet on the fact that the mind at arbitrary moments can “throw out” different phrases. They can both relate to reality and show the fruit of our fantasies and expectations.

And if we always cling to these phrases, get involved in them, then this creates problems. No matter how hard we struggle to calm these phrases in our heads with the help of other phrases, sometimes it only gets worse.

So instead of doing that, we just don't get involved in the thoughts watching this long thought stream, in which there is a place for any thoughts, both good and bad.

Just like we do during meditation.

And then, if we take a step back from these thoughts, stop spending all our energy on unraveling them or resisting them, then the answer to main question life can come by itself. It can come not only in the form of a concept ( "The meaning of life is this and that"), but how much in the form of an emotional state, deep understanding. After all, we previously cleared a place in their minds for him by letting go of all the pointless questions and tedious analysis.

Or you will come to the conclusion that all these thoughts are the result of the disorderly and chaotic work of your mind. Our consciousness is simply arranged in such a way that it asks these questions. And maybe they don't need permission. And, perhaps, in principle, they cannot be resolved from within consciousness. Probably, the very formulation of the question is already somehow incorrect.

But, you say: “And what then to do with the feelings that follow thoughts or that anticipate them? If I do not feel joy, if some state of emptiness fills me?

Here the principle will be similar. If we stop following each feeling, swarming in it, and observe it simply as one of the emotions in a long stream of experiences, then we will see that first a feeling comes, then it is replaced by another, then a third, and so on.

First you feel "existential emptiness" or a feeling of uncertainty, uncertainty, meaninglessness, then comes a feeling of sadness, then anxiety, then joy, then fear, then interest. Just watch this flow, don't get involved in it. Be an observer.

Perhaps in your case this feeling is longer, but it is still temporary.

Yes, each of us from time to time has a feeling of uncertainty, ambiguity, misunderstanding of the global plan. We don't like this feeling. And then we try to find any answer to the eternal question in order to remove this feeling, dispel it. But we spend so much energy on it, so much energy that any deep understanding of the meaning of life disappears. In an attempt to find the meaning of life, he eludes us. The more we cling to this thought, to some concept, the more we lose in the field of fresh feelings, deep understanding.

When uncertainty comes, the unknown, do not drive it away from you. Be with her. Observe this emotion, do not try to drive it away, unravel or suppress it. Be with her. Treat her with respect. Listen to her. What does it tell you?

If you look closely at it, then perhaps you will find something charming, something interesting in it. Perhaps, having stopped wasting energy on resisting this feeling, on unanswered questions, you will see in this emotion itself one of the manifestations of life. Instead of reasoning, you will approach this life. A life full of mysteries, secrets, charm and interest.

Paulo Coelho owns no less than 18 books: novels, anthologies, collections of short stories, parables, and their circulation already exceeds 350 million copies. It is read and loved all over the world.

Paulo Coelho, like no one else, knows how to help you look at life from a different angle, find the great in the small, look at life with optimism and find the strength to love in yourself.

Quotes by Paulo Coelho about love and life, which may help you understand something important for yourself:

1. Sometimes you need to go around the whole world to understand that the treasure is buried at your own house.

2. If you are able to see the beautiful, it is only because you carry the beautiful within yourself. For the world is like a mirror in which everyone sees his own reflection.

3. What happened once may never happen again. But what happened twice will certainly happen a third time.

4. When you really want something, the whole Universe will contribute to making your wish come true.

5. If I do exactly those things that people expect from me, I will fall into their slavery.

6. Life is always waiting for the right moment to act.

7. Getting lost is the best way find something interesting.

8. The darkest hour is before dawn.

9. If a person is yours, then he is yours, and if he is drawn somewhere else, then nothing will hold him back, and he is not worth either nerves or attention.

10. Everything in the world is different manifestations of the same thing.

11. Everyone says anything in the back, but in the eyes - what is beneficial.

12. If love changes a person quickly, then despair - even faster.

13. Where we are expected, we always find ourselves right on time.

14. Life is sometimes surprisingly stingy - for whole days, weeks, months, years a person does not receive a single new sensation. And then he opens the door - and a whole avalanche falls on him.

15. Waiting is the hardest thing.

16. Our angels are always with us, and often they use someone's lips to tell us something.

17. Constantly feeling unhappy is an unaffordable luxury.

18. There are people who were born into the world to go through life alone, this is not bad and not good, this is life.

19. Never give up on a dream! Dreams nourish our soul, just as food nourishes the body. No matter how many times in life we ​​have to go through a crash and see our hopes shattered, we must still continue to dream.

20. Sometimes you have to run to see who will run after you. Sometimes you have to speak softer to see who is really listening to you. Sometimes you have to take a step back to see who else is on your side. Sometimes you have to do wrong decisions to see who's with you when everything falls apart.

21. As soon as I found all the answers, all the questions changed.

22. Most important words in our lives we speak silently.

23. Sometimes you have to die to start living.

Appreciate those with whom you can be yourself. Without masks, omissions and ambitions. And take care of them, they are sent to you by fate. After all, in your life there are only a few of them.

In my life I heard a lot - oaths, promises, compliments, but the best thing I heard was silence. It has no lies.

There will always be a huge difference between those who ask, “why doesn’t it work?” - and those who ask: "how to make everything work out?".

What you can perceive calmly no longer controls you ...

Don't expect anything and you won't be disappointed.

If you are doing something beautiful and sublime, and no one notices - do not be upset: the sunrise is generally the most beautiful sight in the world, but most people are still sleeping at this time.

We ourselves invent problems, barriers, complexes and frameworks for ourselves. Free yourself - breathe life and understand that you can do anything!

What is expected may never happen. The unpredictable is bound to happen.

It is important to be yourself, not what others want you to be.

Money is not the main thing in life. But don't forget to get them before you say such nonsense.

When there is the support of a loved one, you can cope with any problem.

We carry the people we love most with us all the time. Mentally. Inside. In the heart.

In fact, a woman really wants to obey a man. But this is the biggest secret of all women in the world. She just wants to obey a worthy man, stronger and smarter than her.

Dreams are needed in order to be at least a little with someone who is not around.

Almost all of us have a person to whom we would gladly return. But we won't be back...

If you have talent, diligence will improve it, and if you do not have talent, diligence will make up for this deficiency.

Good idea, she's like a woman. If you do not pay attention to it at night, by morning it disappears without a trace.

Stop thinking that you're in the way of everyone! If someone does not like it, he will complain. And if he doesn't have the courage to complain, that's his problem.

You have to love and praise yourself. Do not entrust such a responsible matter to strangers!

Life is short. There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

Strong is not the one who can put on the shoulder blades with one glance, but the one who is able to lift from his knees with one smile!

What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end, it only matters whether you are a happy person or not.

In a relationship, the main thing is to bring joy to each other, and not to prove your individuality ...

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love those who treat you well, forgive those who are wrong, and trust that everything happens for a reason.

A plucked flower should be presented, a poem begun should be completed, and the beloved woman should be happy. Otherwise, you shouldn't take on something that you can't afford.

If the relationship has no future, then they will last exactly as long as the woman has enough patience.

Those who can do it, those who cannot criticize.

If you are inactive now, then either you have uncertainty ahead, or you regret something.

The best part is reaching your goals. Then, smiling, look from the height of success at those who did not believe in you.

Invest in yourself. Things can be lost...

You have to live the way you want, not the way you should!

Get out of your head and into your heart. Think less and feel more. Do not get attached to thoughts, immerse yourself in sensations... Then your heart will come to life.

Whoever is more careful in his promises is more accurate in their fulfillment.

It is easy to start life from scratch, it is much more difficult to get out of minus.

A gem cannot be polished without friction. Similarly, a person cannot become successful without a sufficient number of difficult attempts.

The best years of your life are when you decide that your problems are yours. You don't blame them on the mother, the environment or the president. You realize that you are in control of your own destiny.

We must live for our own pleasure and do not care what others say, we do not owe anything to anyone ...

Sometimes we are silent, not because we have nothing to say. Because we want to say much more than anyone can understand.

People who take all the trifles to heart are the most capable of sincere love.

Everything has its time. Each event has its own Hour.

Memories are the most important thing. We can come up with everything - food, things, money, but not theirs. Therefore, if there is anything real in the world, it is memories. Well, feelings, of course, So don't you dare forget anything. Even if it's uncomfortable and painful. This is part of you.

Miracles - where they believe in them, and the more they believe, the more often they happen.

Success in life must be achieved in such a way that others talk about them instead of you.

Never stop smiling, even when you're sad: someone might fall in love with your smile.

It seems to me that man not only changed the climate of the planet, but also did something with time. Didn't you notice? Now ten years pass like three years before.

Time is like water... all the time running away in an unknown direction.

Wherever we are expected, we always find ourselves right on time.

He who does not love loneliness does not love freedom.

Everything is absolutely survivable in this world; everything but death.

To find a new path, you need to get off the old path.

You need to live in such a way that your presence is necessary, and your absence is noticeable.

My problem is that I'm always trying to think of others. About those who do not think about me at all.

We often regret that we kept silent, knowing what to say.

Life is like a Rubik's cube, on the one hand everything is getting better, but on the other it doesn't.

Don't rely too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in the dark.

Let's live while we're alive.

Diagnosis: acute insufficiency of fabulous events in everyday life.

All the most beautiful things are invisible. That's why we close our eyes when we cry, kiss, dream and sleep...

If you want to achieve anything, you must have the courage to fail.

Maybe I have too much warmth
Since I always meet cold people .. S. Yesenin

When people leave, let go. Fate eliminates the superfluous. This doesn't mean they are bad. This means that their role in your life has already been played.

Being perfect doesn't mean flashy. To be perfect is to be remembered.

You can't change the past, but the future is like a blank slate: everything that happens depends on you.

In fact, the whole life is spent on learning how to live.

One punch can break a face, and one word can break a heart.

Do you know what your trouble is?... You love people who don't deserve it...

If the problem can be solved, don't worry about it. If the problem is unsolvable, there is no point in worrying about it.

Let's just be there. No need for promises and stupid words about love. No need to trust, hope. Don't expect the impossible. Let's just get close. Silently.. Forever.

Each person has at least ten opportunities to change his life during the day. Success comes to those who know how to use them.

Never deprive someone of hope - that might be all they have.

Don't judge a person until you've talked to them in person, because everything you hear is hearsay.

Sometimes you need to simulate a ship crash so that the rats escape from it.

Any obstacle is overcome by perseverance.

Do not be afraid to take risks and stay with nothing. Be afraid to sit around your trough all your life and do nothing to start living better.

Make sure you get what you want, otherwise you'll have to love what you get.

One of the two of us went crazy. It remains to understand who: me or the whole world.

• If you want to live in peace, do not do good deeds when you are not asked about it. Otherwise, you will become a savior and fall into the triangle of fate (persecutor - savior - victim).
• There are 3 components of life: change, choice and principles.
• Live from your imagination, not your history.
• Feelings of guilt turn off the brain.
• Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
• What the wise man does at the beginning, the fool does at the end.
• Our lives always benefit people. It serves them either as an example or as a warning.
• The better our present is, the less we think about the past.
• They do not live twice, and there are many who cannot live even once.
• Life is an ocean. It is difficult to swim on a rough surface. The weak go to the bottom: it is calmer there.
• Living by a mile can be a punishment, and living by an inch can be a blessing. You don't need to solve all of life's problems at once, you only need to solve today's problems. You are only required to endure the pain of this moment.
• The wonderful expression bel far niente means "the joy of doing nothing."
• Falling is part of life, getting back on your feet is living it. Being alive is a gift and being happy is your choice.
• Personality is a signature on the water. You haven't subscribed yet. And she has already disappeared.
• Whatever it is, never take life too seriously: you will never get out of it alive anyway.
• In order to be fully connected with another person, you will first have to find a connection with yourself. If we cannot come to terms with our loneliness, we begin to use the other as a shelter from isolation.
• The battle for life or life for the sake of battles - everything is in our hands.
• If you put a hungry lion, a man, a chimpanzee, a baboon and a dog in a large cage, then it is clear that the man will be eaten first!
• Greed and happiness have never met each other. No wonder they don't know each other.
• Life is poetry, not a commodity on the market. If you're trying to be helpful, you're being used. You will be restrained because the world cannot throw practical people away.
• The person may laugh or cry. Whenever you cry, you could laugh, the choice is yours.
• inner strength- the ability to respect other people's music, but dance to your own tune and listen to your own harmony.
• Early ripening fruits are not stored for a long time.
• The Lord God is sophisticated, but not malicious.
• Only one heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.
• He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.
• Happiness smiles at everyone. But only a few - towards, the majority - following.
• There is nothing you can do about the length of your life. But you can do something about its depth and breadth.
• Experience is the comb that life gives us after we lose all our hair.
• There are many cacti in the world, but it is not necessary to sit on them.
• If you were born without wings, don't stop them from growing.
• Sweaty players in life get more pleasure than arrogant spectators.
• If on the road you meet a preacher of common truths, press the gas pedal as hard as possible.
• Two tragedies can happen in a person's life. The first is not getting what he wants more than anything. The second is to get it.
• Everything that is good in life is either illegal, or immoral, or leads to obesity.
• If you don't have a lion on your harness, leave the sleeping dogs alone.
• Sometimes the wisest thing is to play dumb.
• Sometimes it seems to us that it is impossible to live in this world. But nowhere else.
• People break their legs on bumps, not mountains.
• Life is indeed simple, but we insist on making it complex.
• When running water meets an obstacle in its path, it stops, increases its volume and strength, and then overflows through it. Follow the example of water: stop and increase your strength until the obstacle no longer interferes with your path.
• If you cling to the old and resist change, then you are resisting the natural flow of life - and then you are doomed to suffering. Decay is a prerequisite for new growth. One cycle is not possible without the other.

Every year I feel the delight of how much I have changed, how much I have learned and how little I know at the same time. It helps me to question what I previously thought was irrefutable. And this is an occasion to reflect on how I became better and what contributed to this.

I am sure that in a few years I will look back on today and wonder what I was thinking about. Nevertheless, I want to highlight a number of things that I currently consider to be life truths.

Mental and physical health is paramount. Everything else is not so important.

Most stamps have a much deeper background than you might think. Review them.

Less is always more. Simplicity is almost always the answer to everything.

You can't help but empathize with a person after hearing their story.

To be successful, you must be lucky, but .

Everything starts and ends in your head. The most important thing is your way of thinking.

The essence of happiness is not to be constantly in high spirits, but to be satisfied with life.

Every person is a hypocrite, but often it doesn't matter.

People are having a hard time. But if you are kind, you can make the best of even the worst.

People are capable of inspiring. The path chosen by one person can be very difficult for another.

Perfection exists only in the minds of people. It is unreal. Imagine, create, improve.

Reading is telepathy. The book is the most powerful technology ever invented by man.

Much of what seems real to us is a figment of our collective imagination.

The accuracy of any science other than physics, chemistry and biology is questionable.

However, the scientific method is still the most powerful weapon we have.

The essence of philosophy is not in the understanding of life, but in the clarity of thinking.

The beauty of art lies in its ability to take you beyond self-awareness.

There is a fine line between optimism and naivety.

Before the world can humiliate you, it must get your permission to do so.

Develop the habit of courage. This is how you overcome all obstacles.

The more you value success, the less likely you are to experience it.

Maximum honesty can sometimes hurt, but creates a stronger bond between people.

The most important decision is who you want to take care of.

The more things you care about, the less important that concern becomes.

Justice does not exist. If you rely on it, then you will be disappointed.

Just as reality has many facets, so your thinking should not be limited to one area of ​​\u200b\u200binterest.

It is true that some people have more innate talents than others. But talent alone is not enough.

Self-esteem and confidence in one's own intelligence are of paramount importance. Work on them.

If you constantly look for flaws in something, you will eventually find them.

If you want to constantly absorb knowledge, then it will happen.

Don't be too proud of your accomplishments. Not all of them belong exclusively to you.

Be kind to yourself in the face of failure. They don't define you.

Life is long. If you use your time correctly, you can achieve anything.

Life is short. Don't put up with any bullshit. Don't wait until it's too late.