Quotes About Meaning

Life isn't about counting what you've earned or what you've done for others. I think life is in those in-between moments when you do something, and you feel really, truly happy just by doing it.

Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?

The 'egoism' that is used to hurt others will hurt one's own self. The 'egoism' that is used to give happiness to others becomes cause for his own happiness.

What matters is what we make of our existence.

Why are you so restless? what are you looking for? happiness is right there, yes, in front of you.

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the greatest feeling in the world!

Happiness is a spiritual concept and his source is hidden in God

Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions

Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it, or you're up to something.

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.

If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

We don't come here for our health.

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off.

Synchronicity - the sense of significance beyond chance

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.