Quotes About Finding Meaning In Life

#1. 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

#2. Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

Alexandra Stoddard

#3. Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point to the impossibility of ever finding one.

Minae Mizumura

#4. The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.

Douglas Adams

#5. If you come any closer Dal'las I will be forced to tie you to our bedja until we are done with our discussion." "Hmm, I've been meaning to suggest a little rope play in our sex life," she practically purred, truly finding the idea exciting.

Nia K. Foxx

#6. post-traumatic growth could take five different forms: finding personal strength, gaining appreciation, forming deeper relationships, discovering more meaning in life, and seeing new possibilities.

Sheryl Sandberg

#7. What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

Adrian Grenier

#8. It sounds romantic finding the meaning of life in Tibet, but enlightenment in Tibet is for Tibetans! The meaning of life for most of us is probably in the suburbs.

Andrew Matthews

#9. There is going on in the world today a quiet, bloodless revolution. It has no fanfare, no newspaper coverage, no propaganda; yet it is changing the course of thousands of lives. It is restoring purpose and meaning to life as men of all races and nationalities are finding peace with God.

Billy Graham

#10. Be content, Be grateful, Be loving, Be happy, and this lifestyle will not only change YOUR life, it will change OUR world. I finally grasped the true meaning of let go- let God. (An excerpt from Finding Inner Peace)

Alice Hocker

#11. Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

Oscar Wilde

#12. Life is about finding . . .
what works best for you.

John-Talmage Mathis

#13. The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition.

Vicki Robin

#14. 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

#15. There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#16. We are always seeking it, never finding it.

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#17. What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?

Brodi Ashton

#18. The second way of finding a meaning in life is by experiencing something - such as goodness, truth and beauty - by experiencing nature and culture or, last but not least, by experiencing another human being in his very uniqueness - by loving him.

Viktor E. Frankl

#19. It is not a case of finding the meaning for the moments, but giving the moments meaning.

Steven Redhead

#20. There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.

John H. Groberg

#21. Life is about finding yourself in the magnificence of life.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.

Jane McGonigal

#23. Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

John Taylor Gatto

#24. I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, The world will never understand.

Nadege Richards

#25. Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.

Steve Gleason

#26. Life is capricious and cruel and totally fucking random and there is no hope of finding meaning in a nightmare.

Hugh Howey

#27. Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

Donald Miller

#28. I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him

Leo Tolstoy

#29. It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

Albert Camus

#30. Life is less about finding and more about seeking.

Seth Adam Smith

#31. A change of perspective may be all it takes to transform a painful experience into a powerful growth experience.

Iyanla Vanzant