Meaningful Existence Quotes

#1. As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

Gail Sheehy

#2. To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

Chris Rose

#3. Look at this thing. It's ruining my life. I'm trying to live a peaceful, meaningful existence, but I feel like I'm sitting on top of a volcano. At any moment this thing can decide to freak, close down, and fight with what's happening.

Michael A. Singer

#4. It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

Franz Alexander

#5. suggest that the millennial generation, deeply affected by the Great Recession and a stagnant global economy, has begun to shift its psychic priorities from material success to living a meaningful existence.

Jeremy Rifkin

#6. Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands of reality, and of those elements in reality that support or threaten meaningful existence.

James Luther Adams

#7. Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel.

Jonathan Cainer

#8. And for the first time in their existence, their mean, unhappy lives became happy and meaningful because of one simple phrase ... LOVE.

The Beatles

#9. If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

Viktor E. Frankl

#11. I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

Philip K. Dick

#12. A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of course. But it was lonely.

Adelheid Manefeldt

#14. We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

M. Scott Peck

#15. At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.

Dag Hammarskjold

#16. Come back to me, baby," he murmured against my lips. "Come on.

Emma Nichols

#17. Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

Andrew Schneider

#18. Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Anne Carson

#19. In all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

Margaret Mead

#20. INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. You're in the Courtyard.
Whatever rules humans have for employers aren't my rules unless I say they're my rules.
So I can hire you even though you don't have any idea what you're doing, and I can fire you for having stinky hair!

Anne Bishop

#22. But plausibility itself, in my view, is a tremendous step forward as we continue to marshal the courage to live meaningful lives in a universe that likely came into existence, and may fade out of existence, without purpose, and certainly without us at its center.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#23. Every child deserves to be read to. It is a great bonding time for you and your baby.

Abha C.

#24. I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

Johnny Weir

#25. The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

Paul Sweezy

#26. The precision of the creator's natural laws makes existence of earth meaningful

Sunday Adelaja

#27. PayPal staff pioneered techniques in fighting online fraud that have formed the basis of software used by the CIA and FBI to track terrorists and of software used by the world's largest banks to combat crime.

Ashlee Vance

#28. We seek not for forgiveness, but the freedom and time to do more than 'exist'.

Fennel Hudson

#29. Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#30. Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

Diana Butler Bass

#31. Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals who are and those who are not considered as members.

Murray Rothbard

#32. Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.

William Lane Craig

#33. [Recreational exercise] does not increase the incidence of either smaller than average babies or premature labor; and it actually may decrease the incidence of both.

James F. Clapp III