Top 100 Quotes About Meaning Of Life
#1. I was dealing with a lot of spiritual questions like "Who am I?" "What is God" "What is the meaning of life?" All of these questions that I think we can either face head on or choose to ignore, it's up to us.
John McLaughlin
#2. Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis
#3. The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.
Leo Tolstoy
#4. I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.
Nancy Thayer
#5. What's the meaning of life? Other people.
John Green
#6. If we don't understand the meaning of life, how can we understand the afterlife?
Debasish Mridha
#7. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison
#8. There is a meaning of life but I've been sworn to secrecy.
Brian Spellman
#9. 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
#10. the assistant principal told me how he "loved to read a great novel and discuss the meaning of life." He smiled, sighed wistfully, and then turned suddenly serious. "But we can't do that at our school. We have to focus on basic skills and classroom management.
John Owens
#11. The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.
Jason Evert
#12. If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
Paula Cole
#13. Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness - one where we feel our best and perform our best - it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.
Steven Kotler
#14. Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
Rajneesh
#15. I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.
Mads Mikkelsen
#19. Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.
Jesse Eisenberg
#20. For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#21. Life is short. Eat dessert first
-Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink And The Meaning Of Life
Wendy Mass
#22. What's the meaning of life?"
"I have been programmed by Hexus to reply 'meatballs,'" it says.
Lydia Kang
#23. Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.
Abhijit Naskar
#24. The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
David Viscott
#25. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Thomas Merton
#26. The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.
Wayne W. Dyer
#27. The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.
Kenneth Rexroth
#28. The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
Bruce Lee
#29. When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.
Temple Grandin
#30. In three word I can explain the meaning of life: love is life.
Debasish Mridha
#31. We can't be searching for the meaning of life, at each moment of our life! We need to go out there and live each moment!
Avijeet Das
#32. The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.
Frederick Lenz
#34. So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#35. My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.
Marc Chagall
#36. 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
#37. We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.
Janine Shepherd
#38. Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life. If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#39. Seek O mortal, the meaning of life in your innermost silence!
Preeth Nambiar
#40. When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.
Abbi Glines
#41. What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
Reid Hoffman
#42. 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
#43. What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'
Alison Gopnik
#44. The meaning of life is more than a definition of life.
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#45. He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.
Leo Tolstoy
#46. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion.
Gregory David Roberts
#47. Science and art, ... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities, ... then they only complicate and encumber life.
Anton Chekhov
#48. Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.
Paulo Coelho
#49. Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.
Igor Sikorsky
#50. That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.
George Carlin
#51. The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.
Old Tom Morris
#53. What's the meaning of life?" Cole tried. "There is no inherent meaning," Aero replied. "All significance is constructed.
Brandon Mull
#55. It turned out that while you were searching for the meaning of life, you missed the experience of being alive.
Ruth A. Baer
#56. The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.
Robert A. Johnson
#57. For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.
Jacques Ellul
#58. The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life ...
Leo Tolstoy
#59. The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.
Marianne Fredriksson
#61. No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.
Ravi Zacharias
#62. I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive ... we want to feel the rapture of being alive
Joseph Campbell
#63. I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
Dan Buettner
#64. What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Philosophers have pondered that question for centuries. I'm afraid the answer is disappointingly simple: Mating. That's it.
Oliver Markus
#65. Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is the true meaning of ninja..
Masaaki Hatsumi
#66. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#67. Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
Leo Tolstoy
#68. Nebraskans know the true meaning of life ... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.
Jason Peter
#69. Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.
Jasper Fforde
#70. The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
Niels Bohr
#71. 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
#72. We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.
Dalai Lama XIV
#73. The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'
Kedar Joshi
#74. Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.
Paul Scofield
#75. Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.
Terry Pratchett
#76. She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger
Paulo Coelho
#77. The meaning of life is to love and be loved, to find those who need a hand and offer one, and to fill the world with peace and joy.
Kirsten Osbourne
#78. Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.
Elinor Glyn
#79. 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
#80. I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.
Haruki Murakami
#81. Life is such a big book, Some people can read it and others can not, Only people who can read knows the meaning of life and the secret of our existence
Amr Algendy
#82. To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions ...
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#83. A philosophy which no longer asks the question of the meaning of life would be in great danger of reducing the merely accessory functions, with no real passion for the search for truth.
Pope John Paul II
#84. Seen on a poster: I once asked a child what the meaning of life was. "Feed the kitties," she said, "feed the kitties.
Bren McClain
#85. I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
#86. To find the deep meaning of life, you must get lost in the blue sky and go beyond your comfort zone.
Debasish Mridha
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not shut them out from your world; lest in isolation the meaning of life slips out of sight and you lose the belief in the perfection of creation.
Leo Szilard
#90. Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#91. And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.
David Marusek
#92. Maybe the Truth of the Meaning of Life, Ancient and Arcane Knowledge of the Great Unknowable Universe is handed down only to persons presenting with the correct brand-name footwear. If you turn up wearing Shoe City knock-offs, you don't get to pass Go and collect Infinite Enlightenment.
Tracy Engelbrecht
#93. There were no other eyes in the world like them. In the whole world there was only one being able to unite in itself the universe and the meaning of life for him.
Leo Tolstoy
#94. You were created in the image of God. The image of God. And it is only through God that you can find the true meaning of life. And it is only through God that you can truly find fulfillment.
And it is only through God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, that you can be saved.
Calvin W. Allison
#95. The meaning of life is to be happy. That's why dogs die so young, they're always happy.
Sarah Jae Blake
#96. What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
Dalai Lama
#97. Life truly is what you make it. The purpose and meaning of life is the purpose and meaning that you give it.
Steven Redhead
#98. To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#99. Anyone who searches for the meaning of life is on a fool's journey. Human life has no redeeming purpose or value. - the cymek GENERAL AGAMEMNON, A Time for Titans
Brian Herbert
#100. The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.
Wendy Mass
