Meaning Of Life Quotes

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.

Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.

I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.

Give life meaning through your commitments.

There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same.

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

The meaning of life is happiness.

Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life

My life carries its own meaning in itself.

We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.

A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.

If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

I'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom.