Quotes About Meaning

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.

We all need to be philosophical if we going to traverse the journey of life.

An unexamined life is not worth living...

One of the greatest things in life may not be life itself, but the knowledge of how to live that life.

Life is a question asked by God about the way He exists.

What is life? What does life mean to you? It means live it to the fullest and stay strong all the way through it.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly [that I want] to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Human life must be some form of mistake

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do.