Top 83 Quotes About Giving Life Meaning
#1. Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
Alan McCluskey
#2. Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of life's pleasures. This is the message from Mack Bolan, book after book, and it is the only thing dignifying this type of fiction.
Don Pendleton
#4. 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
#5. God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.
Pope Benedict XVI
#6. You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
Tony Robbins
#7. My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
Clarice Lispector
#8. Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
David Steindl-Rast
#9. It is not a case of finding the meaning for the moments, but giving the moments meaning.
Steven Redhead
#10. To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Robert Browning
#11. When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.
Pope John Paul II
#12. Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.
Ed Greenwood
#13. Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity. As Kafka said, "The meaning of life is that it ends." Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.
Caitlin Doughty
#14. The entire life we have has it's real meaning in giving! He who least knows the real value of giving that can leave a distinctive footprint least knows what the essence of life is about
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
Edvard Munch
#16. Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.
David Brooks
#17. If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.
Bryant McGill
#18. 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
#19. A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.
Karen Armstrong
#20. It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.
Francois Jacob
#21. Dreams make you click, juice you, turn you on, excite the living daylights out of you. You cannot wait to get out of bed to continue pursuing your dream. The kind of dream I'm talking about gives meaning to your life. it is the ultimate motivator.
James C. Collins
#22. The convictions we need to rally around should be about life giving, community transformation, holistic personal growth, sacrifice, beauty, blessing, and world renewal. Who wouldn't want to be a part of a people committed to something that brings personal meaning and makes the world a better place?
Hugh Halter
#23. If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there's no sense telling the story.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#25. I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.
John Zorn
#26. 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
#27. Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.
David Allen
#28. Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#29. When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#30. Passion is the relentless pursuit of those life-enhancing activities or experiences that give our souls meaning.
Janet Hagberg
#31. I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.
Garth Ennis
#32. 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
#33. Today, I count myself blessed to have become a photographer. To be able to articulate the experiences of the voiceless, to bring their identity to the forefront, gives meaning and purpose to my own life.
G.M.B. Akash
#34. The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.
Janet Morris
#35. Purpose, meaning, significance - these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. The act of living a full life by giving time to what matters is a balancing act.
Gary Keller
#36. Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#37. 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
#38. The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.
Albert Camus
#39. The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
Ajahn Brahm
#40. The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#41. Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#43. 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
#44. To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
Will Durant
#45. 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
#47. The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
Leo Tolstoy
#48. The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life
Michael J. Fox
#49. Your life has purpose and meaning. Don't devalue yourself giving someone else meaning.
Michelle Cook-Hall
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. I learned that to find meaning in life, you can't separate yourself from serving people and giving your life to them.
Felix Muruchi
#53. 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
#54. Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness ... Love will never die.
Bryce Courtenay
#55. Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
Donald Barthelme
#56. The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it.
Bryant McGill
#57. My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.
Lady Gaga
#58. The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.
Dalai Lama
#59. A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. Man's Chief purpose ... is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.
Lewis Mumford
#61. 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
#62. Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story.
Jacqui Stedmon
#63. Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.
Carol S. Dweck
#64. In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.
Cesar Chavez
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.
Amit Ray
#68. With good health all the activities of life are greatly enhanced ... It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning.
Ezra Taft Benson
#69. Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death. The only way to avoid the grief would be to not experience the love; and it is love that gives life its richness and meaning.
Lance B. Wickman
#70. It is in the giving up of self that human beings can find the most ecstatic and lasting, solid, durable joy of life. And it is death that provides life with all its meaning. This "secret" is the central wisdom of religion. The process of giving up the self (which is
M. Scott Peck
#71. Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.
Brene Brown
#72. Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life.
Riffat Hassan
#73. 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
#74. What you do every day should contribute to giving your life meaning. If it doesn't, why are you doing it?
Don Hutcheson
#75. 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
#76. What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.
Adrian Grenier
#77. 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
#78. Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.
Robertson Davies
#79. Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life.
Dave Willis
#80. I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.
Kirsten Dunst
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
Freya Stark
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