Meaning Of Life famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.
-- A.C. Grayling -
When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.
-- Abbi Glines -
The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
-- Ajahn Brahm -
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
-- Alan Watts -
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-- Albert Camus -
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
-- Albert Camus -
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
-- Albert Camus -
The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
-- Annie Lennox -
It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.
-- Anodea Judith -
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.
-- Antoni Tapies -
Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good".
-- Aristotle -
Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.
-- Austin Carlile -
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .
-- Ayn Rand -
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.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.
-- Barbara Marciniak -
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’
-- Ben Okri -
The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple, Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves... Some hold it in their hearts.
-- Bernard Meltzer -
The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.
-- Bill Nye -
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
-- Brent Weeks -
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
-- Bruce Lee -
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.
-- Carl L. Becker -
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
Purpose is what gives life meaning.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.
-- Charlie Sheen -
If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility
-- Dalai Lama -
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
-- Dalai Lama -
I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.
-- David Icke -
I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
-- Donald Miller -
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.
-- Elinor Glyn -
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
-- Emil Brunner -
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
-- Erich Fromm -
People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.
-- Erik Naggum -
Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.
-- Ferdinand Mount -
There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle -
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
-- George Carlin -
There is wisdom in waves. Some surfers see it right away, others never do. To find success in surfing, we must learn to be in harmony with nature. This will bring a sense of peace. By sharing this peace, and contributing to other people's happiness, we can find the true meaning of life. Keep surfing . . .
-- Gerry Lopez -
Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
-- Grace Paley -
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.
-- Ira Progoff -
The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.
-- Ira Progoff -
The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.
-- Ira Progoff -
A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
-- Irvin D. Yalom -
Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.
-- Janet Morris -
The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.
-- Jason Evert -
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
-- Jesse Jackson -
To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.
-- Jon Krakauer -
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 -
Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.
-- Judy Collins -
The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.
-- Julie Benz -
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.
-- Kenneth Rexroth -
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
-- Kenny Loggins -
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.
-- Lee Child -
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.
-- Mads Mikkelsen -
The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.
-- Marianne Fredriksson -
Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.
-- Marianne Williamson -
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
-- Max Frisch -
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.
-- Max Lucado -
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.
-- Michael Jackson -
If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?
-- N.D. Wilson -
I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.
-- Nancy Thayer -
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
-- Niels Bohr -
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.
-- Nikolai Berdyaev -
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
-- Oscar Wilde -
Give life meaning through your commitments.
-- Paul C. Reinert -
It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.
-- Paul Kurtz -
To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.
-- Philip Appleman -
There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.
-- Rasheed Ogunlaru -
Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
-- Raymond E. Feist -
Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.
-- Rebecca Romijn -
Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.
-- Robert McKee -
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
-- Shirley Hufstedler -
Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.
-- Stephanie S. Tolan -
What is the meaning of life? Life has the meaning that you give it.
-- Steve Redhead -
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
-- Toni Morrison -
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-- Viktor E. Frankl -
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
-- Viktor E. Frankl -
These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
-- Viktor E. Frankl -
The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.
-- Vishnudevananda Saraswati -
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.
-- W. H. Auden -
The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.
-- Welwyn Wilton Katz -
Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.
-- Wendy Mass -
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
-- Werner Erhard
