Quotes about Meaning Life

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. Votes: 4

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Votes: 3

I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it. Votes: 3

The meaning of life is life. Votes: 2

Purpose is what gives life a meaning. Votes: 2

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. Votes: 2

I was looking for what the meaning of life was. Votes: 2

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. Votes: 2

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Votes: 2

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. Votes: 2

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Votes: 2

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. Votes: 2

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love. Votes: 2

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. Votes: 2

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Votes: 2

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. Votes: 2

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Votes: 2

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. Votes: 2

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. Votes: 2

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Votes: 2

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. Votes: 2

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. Votes: 2

It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?' Votes: 2

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Votes: 2

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is. Votes: 2

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave. Votes: 2

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee. Votes: 2

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life. Votes: 2

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time. Votes: 2

Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Votes: 2

I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love and be loved. She can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. Votes: 2

The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds. Votes: 2

Minks are mean little critters. Vicous, horrible little animals who eat their own. They're not beavers. I wouldn't wear beavers. I'd rather have a mink coat made of mean little critters that are killed in a very nice way and treated nicely for their short, mean lives so that I could keep warm. Votes: 2

When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose and meaning. Life is rich and full. We have no thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power Votes: 2

The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth to every encounter. You don t look for the right partner, you become the right partner. And then the right partner finds you. It s a very active practice focused on healing. Votes: 2

We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education. Votes: 2

Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. Votes: 2

Love, life, meaning...over. Votes: 0

Life is existence with meaning Votes: 0

Life without pain has no meaning. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is happiness. Votes: 0

Purpose is what gives life meaning. Votes: 0

Love gives life purpose and meaning. Votes: 0

Give life meaning through your commitments. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is to see. Votes: 0

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds. Votes: 0

We are the custodians of life's meaning. Votes: 0

What's the meaning of life? Other people. Votes: 0

Life without purpose, is time without meaning. Votes: 0

Only through communication can human life hold meaning. Votes: 0

"¦the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life. Votes: 0

Life without dreaming is a life without meaning. Votes: 0

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. Votes: 0

Is death that which gives meaning to life? Votes: 0

Love life more than the meaning of it? Votes: 0

There is always a double meaning in life... Votes: 0

My life carries its own meaning in itself. Votes: 0

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is that it stops. Votes: 0

Life takes on the meaning that you give it. Votes: 0

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life. Votes: 0

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning. Votes: 0

Why does man need a meaning to life?— Votes: 0

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility. Votes: 0

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning. Votes: 0

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.' Votes: 0

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. Votes: 0

Each life contains as much meaning as all of history. Votes: 0

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained. Votes: 0

It is up to you to give life a meaning. Votes: 0

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation. Votes: 0

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it Votes: 0

The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life. Votes: 0

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life. Votes: 0

A room without books is like a life without meaning. Votes: 0

God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning. Votes: 0

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life. Votes: 0

Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life. Votes: 0

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile. Votes: 0

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Votes: 0

The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others. Votes: 0

Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. Votes: 0

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. Votes: 0

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. Votes: 0

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning. Votes: 0

Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely. Votes: 0

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived. Votes: 0

Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within. Votes: 0

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it. Votes: 0

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. Votes: 0

Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships Votes: 0

The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life. Votes: 0

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning Votes: 0

If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning. Votes: 0

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. Votes: 0

Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace. Votes: 0

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. Votes: 0

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Votes: 0

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society. Votes: 0

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning Votes: 0

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. Votes: 0

Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning. Votes: 0

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life. Votes: 0

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. Votes: 0

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Votes: 0

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life. Votes: 0

We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love. Votes: 0

What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it. Votes: 0

To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning. Votes: 0

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it. Votes: 0

Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life. Votes: 0

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God. Votes: 0

Real life is to be found in natural things that have meaning. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life. Votes: 0

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you. Votes: 0

If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it? Votes: 0

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living Votes: 0

Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God. Votes: 0

If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it? Votes: 0

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life. Votes: 0

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy. Votes: 0

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. Votes: 0

Life is filled with meaning as soon as Jesus Christ enters into it. Votes: 0

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. Votes: 0

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs. Votes: 0

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. Votes: 0

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life. Votes: 0

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life. Votes: 0

The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life Votes: 0

Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. Votes: 0

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal Votes: 0

Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not "sobriety" and meetings. Votes: 0

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Votes: 0

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had Votes: 0

Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life. Votes: 0

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. Votes: 0

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work. Votes: 0

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life. Votes: 0

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition. Votes: 0

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. Votes: 0

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life. Votes: 0

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music. Votes: 0

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form, Votes: 0

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends. Votes: 0

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. Votes: 0

What is the meaning of life? Life has the meaning that you give it. Votes: 0

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate. Votes: 0

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person. Votes: 0

The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have. Votes: 0

Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning. Votes: 0

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life. Votes: 0

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. Votes: 0

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it. Votes: 0

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other. Votes: 0

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. Votes: 0

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. Votes: 0

I believe the meaning of life is the relationships we have with each other. Votes: 0

Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life. Votes: 0

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. Votes: 0

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Votes: 0

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds. Votes: 0

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning. Votes: 0

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing. Votes: 0

When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys. Votes: 0

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. Votes: 0

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. Votes: 0

Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life. Votes: 0

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. Votes: 0

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang Votes: 0

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey. Votes: 0

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it. Votes: 0

Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life. Votes: 0

My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret. Votes: 0

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. Votes: 0

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others... Votes: 0

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values. Votes: 0

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. Votes: 0

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life. Votes: 0

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. Votes: 0

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value. Votes: 0

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Votes: 0

Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory? Votes: 0

...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be. Votes: 0

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness. Votes: 0

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money. Votes: 0

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life. Votes: 0

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life. Votes: 0

In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love. Votes: 0

Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose. Votes: 0

Passion is the relentless pursuit of those life-enhancing activities or experiences that give our souls meaning. Votes: 0

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. Votes: 0

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff. Votes: 0

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now. Votes: 0

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Votes: 0

The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. Votes: 0

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships. Votes: 0

Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life. Votes: 0

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique. Votes: 0

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. Votes: 0

Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity. Votes: 0

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life. Votes: 0

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here. Votes: 0

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning. Votes: 0

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun Votes: 0

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Votes: 0

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life. Votes: 0

I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life. Votes: 0

I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life. Votes: 0

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. Votes: 0

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning. Votes: 0

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. Votes: 0

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning. Votes: 0

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word. Votes: 0

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. Votes: 0

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life. Votes: 0

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? Votes: 0

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful. Votes: 0

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it. Votes: 0

Education, possessions, or people cannot replace passion, but they are given meaning by your passion in life. Votes: 0

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. Votes: 0

Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall. Votes: 0

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. Votes: 0

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. Votes: 0

...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living. Votes: 0

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning. Votes: 0

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. Votes: 0

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. Votes: 0

You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something. Votes: 0

Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks. Votes: 0

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. Votes: 0

True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself. Votes: 0

Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance. Votes: 0

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Votes: 0

You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you. Votes: 0

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning. Votes: 0

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics. Votes: 0

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same. Votes: 0

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is basically to be the kind of person you would want to be around. Votes: 0

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Votes: 0

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. Votes: 0

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite. Votes: 0

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Votes: 0

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life. Votes: 0

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning. Votes: 0

By understanding the meaning of common dreams, you can identify issues that want your attention in your waking life. Votes: 0

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children. Votes: 0

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. Votes: 0

Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question. Votes: 0

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. Votes: 0

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning. Votes: 0

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. Votes: 0

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Votes: 0

Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions. Votes: 0

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life. Votes: 0

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. Votes: 0

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life. Votes: 0

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. Votes: 0

Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence. Votes: 0

Don't go searching for a meaning for life as there is none other than the one you create yourself. Votes: 0

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity. Votes: 0

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Votes: 0

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. Votes: 0

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots. Votes: 0

Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense. Votes: 0

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning Votes: 0

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. Votes: 0

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out. Votes: 0

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. Votes: 0

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning. Votes: 0

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan. Votes: 0

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life. Votes: 0

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol. Votes: 0

Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you? Votes: 0

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life. Votes: 0

Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student. Votes: 0

Your life is enriched with meaning when allow yourself to become inspired, set goals, and charge after them with passion. Votes: 0

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning. Votes: 0

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life. Votes: 0

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity. Votes: 0

The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together. Votes: 0

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live. Votes: 0

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. Votes: 0

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. Votes: 0

But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers. Votes: 0

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life. Votes: 0

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Votes: 0

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life. Votes: 0

The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... Votes: 0

One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. Votes: 0

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning. Votes: 0

Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. Votes: 0

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows. Votes: 0

Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life Votes: 0

Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift. Votes: 0

The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life. Votes: 0

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. Votes: 0

To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life. Votes: 0

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Votes: 0

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people. Votes: 0

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious. Votes: 0

If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning. Votes: 0

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life Votes: 0

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little. Votes: 0

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. Votes: 0

The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life. Votes: 0

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again. Votes: 0

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.' Votes: 0

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning. Votes: 0

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life. Votes: 0

Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'. Votes: 0

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you. Votes: 0

Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life. Votes: 0

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life. Votes: 0

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation. Votes: 0

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering. Votes: 0

Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear. Votes: 0

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. Votes: 0

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life. Votes: 0

Crap.It's all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn't anybody realize this~? Votes: 0

Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you. Votes: 0

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. Votes: 0

The objective of two lovers is almost always the same; to find meaning in their individual lives and in their life together. Votes: 0

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day. Votes: 0

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater. Votes: 0

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Votes: 0

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream. Votes: 0

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything. Votes: 0

Crap.It's all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn't anybody realize this? Votes: 0

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble. Votes: 0

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul. Votes: 0

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right. Votes: 0

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life. Votes: 0

The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning. Votes: 0

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. Votes: 0

A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success. Votes: 0

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world. Votes: 0

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning. Votes: 0

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. Votes: 0

With good health all the activities of life are greatly enhanced... It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Votes: 0

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms. Votes: 0

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life. Votes: 0

The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life). Votes: 0

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane Votes: 0

God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world. Votes: 0

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. Votes: 0

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! Votes: 0

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. Votes: 0

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Votes: 0

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well. Votes: 0

The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life. Votes: 0

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun! Votes: 0

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don`t think life has very much meaning. Votes: 0

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. Votes: 0

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace. Votes: 0

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself. Votes: 0

You cannot create a life of fulfillment, joy, and meaning while you are barricading yourself from others and from the opportunities Life offers you. Votes: 0

The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life. Votes: 0

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. Votes: 0

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. Votes: 0

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning. Votes: 0

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living. Votes: 0

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. Votes: 0

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it. Votes: 0

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence. Votes: 0

Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you. Votes: 0

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers. Votes: 0

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision. Votes: 0

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say. Votes: 0

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. Votes: 0

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life. Votes: 0

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. Votes: 0

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life. Votes: 0

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life. Votes: 0

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love. Votes: 0

Instead of pondering the meaning of life, create it. Bring forth a purpose that has grown from the depths of your soul. Water it everyday. Votes: 0

Life's like that. As we grow and change, some things we've experience before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life. Votes: 0

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning? Votes: 0

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years. Votes: 0

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. Votes: 0

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community. Votes: 0

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? Votes: 0

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter. Votes: 0

Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge. Votes: 0

In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives. Votes: 0

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' Votes: 0

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living. Votes: 0

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God. Votes: 0

Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality. Votes: 0

If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy. Votes: 0

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding. Votes: 0

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account. Votes: 0

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov. Votes: 0

There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life. Votes: 0

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life. Votes: 0

Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning. Votes: 0

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves. Votes: 0

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. Votes: 0

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Votes: 0

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life. Votes: 0

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning Votes: 0

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning. Votes: 0

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally. Votes: 0

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. Votes: 0

The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art. Votes: 0

Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out! Votes: 0

I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson. Votes: 0

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms. Votes: 0

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air. Votes: 0

The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life. Votes: 0

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life. Votes: 0

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. Votes: 0

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is 'The Brothers Karamazov.' Votes: 0

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy. Votes: 0

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility. Votes: 0

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching. Votes: 0

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Votes: 0

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. Votes: 0

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ... Votes: 0

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning. Votes: 0

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi. Votes: 0

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Votes: 0

I think that all things are spirit and are derived from spirit. When you look at life from that perspective, it takes on a whole new meaning. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. Votes: 0

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life Votes: 0

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career. Votes: 0

Life has no meaning a priori"¦ It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. Votes: 0

All have dreams, Life for them, they add meaning to LIFE. The only thing that differentiates us from other beings is the fact that US can dream. Votes: 0

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Votes: 0

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions... Votes: 0

Good men are a bit like border collies: we're happiest when we're useful. That's why the life of a good man involves constant striving for direction and meaning. Votes: 0

We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations. Votes: 0

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. Votes: 0

Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life. Votes: 0

What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? Votes: 0

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life. Votes: 0

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning. Votes: 0

If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive. Votes: 0

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life Votes: 0

I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life. Votes: 0

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. Votes: 0

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy. Votes: 0

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth "“ to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people. Votes: 0

A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life. Votes: 0

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? Votes: 0

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation... Votes: 0

PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.. Votes: 0

Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning. Votes: 0

Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return. Votes: 0

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder. Votes: 0

I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. Votes: 0

He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking. Votes: 0

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise? Votes: 0

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer. Votes: 0

Snow is diamonds for a faery's feet;Blithely and bonnily she trips along,Her lips a-carol with a merry song,And in her eyes the meaning... Life is sweet! Votes: 0

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Votes: 0

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life. Votes: 0

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life. Votes: 0

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. Votes: 0

When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die. Votes: 0

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life? Votes: 0