Meaning Of Life Quotes

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

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.

When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting value. That's the meaning of life, it's that simple.

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

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

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.

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

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

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?

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

The meaning of life is to see.

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

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

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

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.

People and stars are made of the same stuff.

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

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

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

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

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.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

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

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience,
to have impulse voices from within,
and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.

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.

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

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 . . .

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

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.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?

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

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

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

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

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.

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

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.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

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

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

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

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

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

You don't need the fame to be vital.

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