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Quotes About Meaning

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.
~ Charles Dickens
Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.
~ Chris Shays
It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.
~ David Simon
I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The purpose of life is to remember.
~ Henry Miller
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
~ Jean Anouilh
Without God, life is everything.
~ Joseph Simmons
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
~ Mark Twain
Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.
~ Max Lucado
He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.
~ Max Stirner
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
~ Oscar Wilde
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
~ Ralph Waite
Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.
~ Ray Davies
Futility is the defining characteristic of life.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
~ Walter Kaufmann
In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
~ George Eliot
It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.
~ George Steinbrenner
The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.
~ Goldie Hawn
Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi