Find Meaning Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

Viktor E. Frankl

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

Veronica Roth

#4. 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

#5. Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

Erik Parker

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

Felix Muruchi

#7. To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffer.

D.M.X.

#8. 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

#9. They make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes ... If a person learns to enjoy and find meaning in the ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself, the burden of social controls automatically falls from one's shoulders.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#10. To find meaning in our lives we need consistent exposure to kids, elders and animals ... cuz kids and animals aren't looking for it, and elders are the closest to finding it.

Gregor Collins

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

Quinn McDonald

#12. 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

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

Ndiritu Wahome

#14. Those who live the most fully realized lives - giving back to their families, societies, and ultimately themselves - tend to find meaning in their obstacles.

Susan Cain

#15. If your child dies, or you witness a terrible natural disaster, yes, you certainly want a scientific explanation as to what's happened. But science can't help you to find meaning, help you deal with that turbulence of your grief, rage, and dismay.

Karen Armstrong

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

Viktor E. Frankl

#17. Whenever we suffer - no matter what the severity of our suffering is - we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.

Alex Pattakos

#18. The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Laurel Lea

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

Christopher Paolini

#20. Love; n.; (luhv), The emotion of something unexplainable. A word so powerful, it's hard to find meaning in any dictionary. Just be glad you found it. (eg: The world shall love someday)

No One

#21. Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Desmond Tutu

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

Cameron Jace

#23. The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

Paul Kurtz

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

Viktor E. Frankl

#25. People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

Khaled Hosseini

#26. 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

#27. In order to find meaning and readerly pleasure in the universe the writer reveals to us, we feel we must search for the novel's secret center, and we therefore try to embed every detail of the novel in our memory, as if learning each leaf of a tree by heart.

Orhan Pamuk

#28. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his psychiatric practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering, but we can choose how to find meaning in it and move forward with renewed purpose.

Sophie Sabbage

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

Albert Einstein

#30. We can learn to work with them, understand them, find meaning in them, make critical choices, and use their energies to grow in strength, wisdom, and compassion.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#31. We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light ... We all have something to give.

George H. W. Bush

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

Paul Pearsall

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

Viktor E. Frankl

#34. A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.

Jason Haxton

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.

Charles R. Swindoll

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

Christina Baldwin

#42. I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#43. 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

#44. It's hard to find meaning in what we do if at some level it doesn't help someone else or make someone happier.

Matthew D. Lieberman

#45. Do you mind telling me what you pray?"
"I pray for the wisdom to find meaning in the . . . her death."
"And have you?"
"No, Mrs. Aislabie, I find no meaning. But perhaps that's because I'm too small to see a plan so large I rarely get anything but a brief glimpse of it.

Katharine McMahon

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

Tony Robbins

#47. 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

#48. People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.

Dan Chaon

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

Huston Smith

#50. If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

Bruno Bettelheim

#51. Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning,

Bret Easton Ellis

#52. Frankl went on to say it wasn't pleasure mankind was looking for, that men only sought pleasure when they couldn't find meaning. If a man has no sense of meaning, Frankl argued, he will numb himself with pleasure.

Donald Miller

#53. In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

John De Ruiter

#54. I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

Ruta Sepetys

#55. 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

#56. The word "preacher" comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the purpose of a prophet except to find meaning in trouble?

Marilynne Robinson

#57. It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

Viktor E. Frankl

#58. The need to find meaning ... is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Margaret Mead

#59. If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

Yehuda Berg

#60. Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.

Satya Nadella

#61. 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

#62. In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

David Christian

#63. I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness. I tried to embrace the nothingness, but it slipped through my grasp, and now there is nothing where the nothingness was. This may sound meaningful, but it isn't.

John S. Hall

#64. Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.

Robert Kegan

#65. 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

#66. There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.

Stephen Levine

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

Woody Allen

#70. I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish.

Jay Watson

#71. Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

Irvin D. Yalom

#72. Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

Viktor E. Frankl

#73. I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives, we fall very easily into despair.

Karen Armstrong

#74. Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.

Jeremy Griffith

#75. I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.

Jorge Luis Borges

#76. Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#77. We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are

Alan Ryan

#78. Those who mourned needed to find meaning in their loss. When the British struck their Victory Medal for issue to all those who had served, they provided one answer: 'For Civilisation', it said.

Anonymous

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this terrible devastation, people sitting in prison. I've been saved from prison, from death, and from heroine addiction. What am I going to do with that?

Luis J. Rodriguez

#82. Coincidence. But the eagerness to find meaning in such coincidences is love.

Brian Morton

#83. And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed.

Ally Condie

#84. 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

#85. I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

Pablo Picasso

#86. I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.

Lionel Suggs

#87. I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

Mark Haddon

#88. To find the meaning of life, enjoy the journey, the beauty of the nature, the glint of a dew drop, the warmth of the morning sun, the songs of the wind, and smiles of flowers. These are all there to make your journey worthwhile and make your life meaningful.

Debasish Mridha

#89. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

H.G.Wells

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. I opened up a dictionary
And tried to find a meaning in a hurry.
Turned the pages to look for the word -- "Perfect"
And saw you listed there, coz I know you're worth it!

Ritika Chhabra

#94. What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or fiction--to give meaning to your own existence? Without a narrative for your own life, do you ever really exist at all?

Maria Goodin

#95. If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

Jaggi Vasudev

#96. I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

Frantz Fanon

#97. Not that one must be an
animal, but I find no meaning in the happiness of angels. I know
simply that this sky will last longer than I. And what shall I call
eternity except what will continue after my death?

Albert Camus

#98. I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

Colum McCann

#99. Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it.

Francis Spufford

#100. It's perfectly possible to spend forty hours a week on a job that's meaningless, as long as you know what your real vocation is and find some way to express it. Then you won't confuse your job with the meaning of your life.

Sam Keen