Life Meaning Quotes
If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.
When people say they try to find themselves, their inner self, to understand the meaning of life I smile and I say, instead why don't you create yourself and give a new meaning to your life
We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life’s tragic beauty.
We, animal and human, come to this time and space to have an experience embedded with our own divine purpose.
Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life’s simple truths.
In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.
We are always seeking it, never finding it.
We learn that all life is scarce yet abundant. Profane yet sacred. Loving yet hateful. Enlightened yet obscured. Isolated yet collective. That life is somehow derived from love.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire--It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.
As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do a work that has meaning. We have evolved to feel this way. Man's first thought was 'I AM'.
The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.
How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?
Arthur was frequently baffled by the complacency with which people went on with what they insouciantly called their lives, as if both the word and the thing made perfect sense to them.
I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?
After all, a man's life, when all is said and done, should serve some greater purpose than that of a hero in a cautionary tale.
What is the most important thing in your life?For me, it is my freedom of mind, my freedom to choose my own ways of self-construction or self-destruction.
To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.
In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.
In modern society the term "no" have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for "Negotiations Open".
If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.
MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? … Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that?
When we are courageous enough to begin exploring the ‘Why’s” and the ‘Who’s' of life, the ‘How’s’ and ‘What’s’ of life start to come into focus as well. "
The spiritual journey is an adventure of exploration that gradually starts to open up before us when we are ready to begin asking the questions, “Who am I? and “Who are you?
Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible and visible only to the spirit.
Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it.
The true meaning and purpose of life is to give some meaning and purpose to your life.
Life truly is what you make it. The purpose and meaning of life is the purpose and meaning that you give it.
