Quotes About Meaning

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Talk about life - but in your own way.

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.

The values of life are most important.

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.