Find Meaning In Life Quotes

#1. We do not find meaning in life; we make meaning from life.

Quinn McDonald

#2. I learned that to find meaning in life, you can't separate yourself from serving people and giving your life to them.

Felix Muruchi

#3. We all have a divine nature, and we have a thirst to become one with that divinity. That divinity lets us find meaning in life event at the pinnacle of happiness, lets us weep for the pain and sorrow of others, and lets us dream of a more beautiful world. (p. 154)

Ilchi Lee

#4. You will find meaning in life
only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed.
It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced ...

Osho

#5. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.

Albert Einstein

#6. Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

Viktor E. Frankl

#7. I mean, what does a devil want but to find meaning in life after a long journey of turmoil and troubles?

Cameron Jace

#8. Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Christopher Paolini

#9. There are many ways to find meaning in life, one of them is the love of art

Ndiritu Wahome

#10. I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.

Anthony Burgess

#11. Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

Robert Moss

#12. His theory is that life is loss,' said Myrna after a moment. 'Loss of parents, loss of loves, loss of jobs. So we have to find a higher meaning in our lives than these things and people. Otherwise we'll lose ourselves.

Louise Penny

#13. Eve was created to know and walk with God and to make him known to others by reflecting his character in her life. This is a woman's true path to fulfillment and meaning - the only way we will ever discover who we are and find our purpose. And it is accessible to all of us.

Carolyn Custis James

#14. You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

Kahlil Gibran

#15. 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.

Paulo Coelho

#16. Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

Robert McKee

#17. Treasures are hidden and hard to find but if we could find a real treasure, it will shine our lives. In the similar way ultimate reality is hidden and hard to find but if we could find it, it will shine our lives.

Muditha Champika

#18. To find meaning in the mystery of existence is life's final and fascinating challenge.

Huston Smith

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

Erwin McManus

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

Tony Robbins

#21. Finding happiness is not as simple as having good friends or a full social life. The crunch issue is our ability, or inability, to find within ourselves a sense of meaning or deeper purpose, something not found in everyday life.

Mark Vernon

#22. Were all trying to find meaning to make sense of our realities; in search of happiness within,
Without realising our happiness within; is the only reality that gives life a meaning.

Nikki Rowe

#23. Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

Roger Scruton

#24. Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold attempts to help others find their own way in their lives. The relationships we weave become an exquisite and endless pattern.

Keith Ferrazzi

#25. 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!

Dana Delany

#26. The fakirs always throng the sea-shore
To find meaning in the chaos
And then they too become melancholy
Feeling nothing but their naked toes.

Avijeet Das

#27. Life without meaning
cannot be borne.
We find a mission
to which we're sworn
or answer the call
of Death's dark horn.
Without a gleaning
of purpose in life,
we have no vision,
we live in strife,
or let blood fall
on a suicide knife.

Dean Koontz

#28. Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

Etgar Keret

#29. You were created in the image of God. The image of God. And it is only through God that you can find the true meaning of life. And it is only through God that you can truly find fulfillment.
And it is only through God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, that you can be saved.

Calvin W. Allison

#30. 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.

Carl Jung

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

Jesse Jackson

#32. Be proud of your child, accept him as he is and do not heed the words and stares of those who know no better. This child has a meaning for you and for all children. You will find a joy you cannot now suspect in fulfilling his life for and with him.

Pearl S. Buck

#33. Intention is everything. If your intention is to find meaning in your life, then your life shall be filled with an enriched sense of purpose and satisfaction.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#34. To find meaning and truth in life place a blindfold on and observe your surroundings, you may find it right in front of you.-Mark Miller

Mark Miller

#35. To find the deep meaning of life, you must get lost in the blue sky and go beyond your comfort zone.

Debasish Mridha

#36. Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#37. The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't any

Ayn Rand

#38. She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

Paulo Coelho

#39. Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.

Angel Olsen

#40. The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it ... find meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

Deepak Chopra

#41. What is the meaning of life? This meaning is not for you to find, but for you to define. The meaning of life is found in the purposes that we pursue as we grow older.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#42. The meaning is hidden in man, but it is only man himself who can find it.

Liv-Christine Hoem

#43. Nothing in the air but
clouds. nothing in the air but
rain. each man's life too short to
find meaning and
all the books almost a
waste.
I sit and listen to them
singing
I sit and listen to
them.

Charles Bukowski

#44. I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.

Sue Monk Kidd

#45. Everyone dies. The choice and the challenge are in how we chose to live. And the more meaning you find in your life, the more reason you have to live.

Jeffrey W. Comment

#46. It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#47. In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

Veronica Roth

#48. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.

Viktor E. Frankl

#49. Every human being needs to find the meaning of life and receive a satisfaction in it

Sunday Adelaja

#50. I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

Jerry Fodor

#51. When you are in love, you have to be ready to suffer and find out the meaning of love.

Debasish Mridha

#52. 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.

Pope Francis

#53. Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone ... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things ... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

Christopher Reeve

#54. A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.

Miranda Kerr

#55. If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

Chloe Thurlow

#56. 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.

Robert Towne

#57. Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life
ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.

Lillian B. Rubin

#58. Anyone continually knitting his life into contexts of intention, import, and clarifications of meaning will in the end find that he has lost the sense of experiencing life.

Joseph Campbell

#59. 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

#60. Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

Karen Armstrong

#61. Many find in sex and economics the meaning of life and the reason of it all. The consequence of this is that the goal of life for many has become a relief of tension.

Sachindra Kumar Majumdar

#62. In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Thomas Merton

#63. 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.

Libba Bray

#64. Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and who we are ... We find meaning in the seeking itself. Every step along the way is the Way ...

Surya Das

#65. Australian Aborigines say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush.

Robert Moss

#66. I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

Charles Bukowski

#67. Warriors of light frequently ask themselves what they are doing here. Very often they believe their lives have no meaning. That is why they are warriors of light. Because they make mistakes. Because they ask questions. Because they continue to look for a meaning. And, in the end, they will find it.

Paulo Coelho

#68. Many believe that they must discover their purpose for living, that life is about purpose. But, in truth, life is purpose. Meaning is found in the fact of life itself. So many people try to find fulfillment in what they do, instead of who they are and who I am.

Dale Fife

#69. You can find the meaning of life in a book.

Nicola Yoon

#70. Design has purpose, Art has meaning. Find purpose and meaning in your life.

Nor Sanavongsay

#71. If life has any meaning or purpose, you won't find it in happiness, but in something more rational, in something greater.

Anton Chekhov

#72. The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

Viktor E. Frankl

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

Paul Pearsall

#74. Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.

Mitch Albom

#75. Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

Peter Abrahams

#76. One of the things you'll discover ... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.

Erwin McManus

#77. It is in the giving up of self that human beings can find the most ecstatic and lasting, solid, durable joy of life. And it is death that provides life with all its meaning. This "secret" is the central wisdom of religion. The process of giving up the self (which is

M. Scott Peck

#78. One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

Bell Hooks

#79. The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens.

Robert M. Price

#80. The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.

Sarah-Patton Boyle

#81. Give yourself permission to see and feel the extraordinary events in your own life. In internalizing them, you also will find your perspective about life and its meaning will change, resulting in growth and expansion of your soul.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#82. It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.

Mark Batterson

#83. The awareness begins with a feeling of restlessness - an inner urging to find more meaning in life. As we respond to this inner prompting we begin to notice the "chance coincidences" - strange synchronistic events in our life. We begin to realize that some underlying process is operating our life.

James Redfield

#84. We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.

Beth Gibbons