Quotes About Meaning

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

My vision is to inspire others to find purpose and happiness.

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.

So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.

When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.

Your purpose is your why.