Top 84 Give Your Life Meaning Quotes
#1. If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.
Bryant McGill
#2. 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
#4. You figure out those things that give your life meaning, and you hold onto them. You try to stop worrying about the stuff you can't control.
Cynthia Hand
#5. 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.
Tim Winton
#6. If you wait for love to give your life meaning, you will go through life without both
Linda Poindexter
#7. You can give your life meaning.' She stroked my forehead from the center to the temples, with just her fingertips. 'We all can.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#8. One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking
#9. Positively inclined people see everything in their right proportions. They put right things into perspective and are not envious of others. They attach importance to those things that give meaning to daily life, but they tend to focus more on others than themselves
Herman Van Rompuy
#10. Never ever stop dreaming. You will make it big one day. What is life without our struggles? Our struggles give us insight and depth into life.
Avijeet Das
#11. What is the meaning of life?
'To give life meaning.
Anonymous
#12. Such is life, marked by the ticking of the clock and the call of the alarm until the day it all falls into perpetual silence. For most of us, certainly for this boy, life is not composed of great deeds, but of small actions, and that's okay. It's the best I can give and I like it this way.
Gillibran Brown
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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.
Walter Kaufmann
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Good begets good; evil begets evil; and even if the good you give is met by evil, you have no choice but to go on giving better than you get. Otherwise-and these were Willy's exact words-why bother to go on living?
Paul Auster
#21. If life is to have meaning, and if God's will is to be done, all of us have to accept who we are and what we are, give it back to God, and thank Him for the way He made us. What I am is God's gift to me; what I do with it is my gift to Him.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#22. To give something meaning, is to give something hope, It is to give something life.
Yahya Mohamed
#23. My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#24. 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
#25. 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
#27. Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#28. The true meaning and purpose of life is to give some meaning and purpose to your life.
Steven Redhead
#29. Your busy schedule has plenty of quantity. Think of how you could give it some true quality and meaning. Consider the people, the beliefs, the goals, the things which are really imp9ortant to you. Make time for them, not someday, but right now. Don't just fill your schedule. Fill your life.
Ralph Marston
#30. Homeless person or business person, doctor or teacher, whatever your background may be, the same holds true for each of us: life takes on the meaning that you give it.
Liz Murray
#31. 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
#32. You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
Tony Robbins
#33. Give a reason for your existence and make a life out of it.
Nikki Rowe
#34. The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
David Viscott
#35. Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold.
Hina Hashmi
#36. 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
#37. 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?
Fred Rogers
#38. 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
#39. In the depths of the human soul ... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.
Pope John Paul II
#40. Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
Elie Wiesel
#41. The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.
Robert Hellenga
#42. Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.
Avijeet Das
#43. A woman could be totally powerless, and still give meaning to her life by dreaming about flight.
Fatema Mernissi
#44. 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
#45. [ ... ] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226
Stephanie Dowrick
#46. The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.
Dalai Lama
#47. 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
#48. Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning.
Annette Bening
#49. I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.
Anne Rice
#50. 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
#51. Nothing has meaning, only the meaning you give it.
Zahida A. Khan
#52. Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.
Thomas Head Raddall
#53. The weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.
Edgar Lee Masters
#54. The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it.
Bryant McGill
#55. My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.
Lady Gaga
#56. Roses are for our eyes to adore, but they mean nothing unless you give them to someone you love.
Chris Paynter
#57. The only meaning to life is the one that you give it, and don't let anyone tell you diffrent.
Mathew Mather
#58. Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!
E. M. Forster
#59. Life is life! The real meaning and definition of life is not wealth, though wealth can define and give meaning to life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#60. 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 ...
Iris Murdoch
#61. Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the world of myth means losing the sense that life is deeply meaningful, full of meanings trying to be revealed at each twist and turn in the ongoing drama.
Michael Meade
#62. Life has the meaning we give it, no more, no less.
Steven Redhead
#63. Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#64. 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
#65. Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance.
Bruce Lee
#66. We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.
Susan Moody
#67. 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
#68. Reducing human beings to the faint after-image of some omnipotent deity, or trying to give human life meaning by postponing real fulfilment to some post-mortem paradise ... can actually threaten to rob real life of its meaningfulness.
British Humanist Association
#69. In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
Cesare Pavese
#70. 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
#71. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
#72. Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.
Chriswell Freeman
#73. When you give meaning to even the most meaningless of things around you, you will always stand to be taught something new, have what you already know reinforced, or be reminded of what you've forgotten.
A.J. Darkholme
#74. Protecting your treasure means to give your life for it.
J.R. Rim
#75. The moments you feel to give up your life can create the best moments to grasp fully the meaning of your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. 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
#77. Sometimes all you need to do is just hold on to yourself! Look at the stars in the sky, listen to the sweet murmurings of the breeze, inhale the fragrance of the night, and you will feel fine!
Avijeet Das
#78. To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
Will Durant
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
Vladimir Nabokov
#83. The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
Leo Tolstoy
#84. The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life
Michael J. Fox
