Give Life A Meaning Quotes

#1. The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

Will Durant

#3. Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. It is up to you to give life a meaning.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#5. The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.

Wendy Mass

#6. The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

Odd Nerdrum

#7. Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

Ed Greenwood

#8. Give a reason for your existence and make a life out of it.

Nikki Rowe

#9. Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.

Don DeLillo

#10. When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.

Nancy Pearcey

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

Robyn Davidson

#12. When people say they try to find themselves, their inner self, to understand the meaning of life I smile and I say, instead why don't you create yourself and give a new meaning to your life

Anubhav Mishra

#13. A myth, therefore, is true because it is effective, not because it gives us factual information. If, however, it does not give us new insight into the deeper meaning of life, it has failed.

Karen Armstrong

#14. The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist the Internet is wonderful are those who need it to give their life meaning.

Chuck Klosterman

#15. As part of his life-saving therapy with suicidal patients and his own experience in a Nazi concentration camp, Frankl learned there are three things that give meaning to life: first, a project; second, a significant relationship; and third, a redemptive view of suffering.

Jeff Goins

#16. The world is crazy about amassing guns, bombs and wealth of humongous proportions, but it will not give knowledge a second glance!

Avijeet Das

#17. Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost
all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

A. Powell Davies

#18. There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point ... The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

R. Dawkins

#19. 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

#20. 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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#21. People who sell bolts and nuts and locomotives and frozen orange juice make billions, while the people who struggle to bring a little beauty into the world, give life a little meaning, they starve.
$10,000 A Year, Easy

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. 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.

Anais Nin

#23. Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.

Diane Ackerman

#24. I am a 'professional word seller'..I sell 'WORDS' for a 'living'...
'LIVING' with 'empowering' words is a 'Choice' we make..
'CHOICE' comes via the meaning we give to words we use..
'MEANING' comes from understanding 'life'...

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#25. The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

Chris Hedges

#26. Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Luigi Pirandello

#27. When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar and a piece of cake, today the whole world doesn't give me that life.

M.F. Moonzajer

#28. 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.

Lucy Lawless

#29. I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

Dan Chaon

#30. I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.

Garth Ennis

#31. Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise.

Beverly S. Harless

#32. Man is a dubious mixture of mind and matter; since the mind unlocks recognition of the eternal to him, while matter pulls him down and binds him to the transitory, he should strive away from the senses and toward the mind if he wishes to elevate his life and give it meaning.

Hermann Hesse

#33. Once you get very clear about the things that are the most important to you in your life, those things that truly give meaning and purpose to your existence, purging and de-cluttering will become a natural process.

Cary David Richards

#34. Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#35. The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life

Michael J. Fox

#36. I am powerful and I am loving.
I have much to give to this world.
I am a person of worth.
I deserve love.
I am a capable person.
My life has meaning.
My life is unfolding perfectly.
There is plenty of time.

Susan Jeffers

#37. 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

#38. All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#39. I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading?

Dean Bokhari

#40. What sort of ideas, I wondered, might help to give meaning to life when one is in the midst of fundamentalist persons of all kinds who believe that they have a monopoly on truth and some are even willing to kill to prove that?

Gurcharan Das

#41. There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

Simone De Beauvoir

#42. Lead, like me, the flown-away virtue back to the earth - yea, back to body and life: that it may give to the earth its meaning, a human meaning! A

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#44. but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to things. i create significance, and i create meanings, and as hard as that may for you to believe, that's really even more important in the long run than life and death.

Elliot Mabeuse

#45. One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny.

Melissa Pritchard

#46. For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept

Sigmund Brouwer

#47. Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.

Eric Hoffer

#48. We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Eric Hoffer

#49. Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.

Jerry Hall

#50. A woman could be totally powerless, and still give meaning to her life by dreaming about flight.

Fatema Mernissi

#51. Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.

Avijeet Das

#52. All fine films, novels, and plays, through all shades of the comic and the tragic, entertain when they give the audience a fresh model of life empowered with an affective meaning.

Robert McKee

#53. We do not have control
over many things
in life and death
but we do have control
over the meaning we give it.

Nathalie Himmelrich

#54. For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#55. One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change ...

Viktor E. Frankl

#56. Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Katherine Anne Porter