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Quotes About Meaning

If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
~ Eudora Welty
They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
~ Franz Liszt
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane
~ Hope Edelman
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.
~ Elizabeth Holmes
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
~ Robert Browning
Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm.
~ Christopher Titus
People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.
~ George Carlin
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
~ Albert Camus
Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
~ Thomas Mann
You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)
~ Cassandra Clare
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
~ Emile M. Cioran
If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
~ Kent Nerburn
When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?
~ Tom DeLonge
The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
~ David Platt
The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.
~ Forrest Church