Quotes About Meaning

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life.

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.

The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.