Quotes About Meaning

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

The first success of life is we find that life should live in what cause.

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .

I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.

Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.

Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

Man be my metaphor.

We can also lose our way if we misunderstand selflessness or emptiness. When we confuse relative reality with ultimate reality, or misinterpret ultimate reality as something that destroys the conventional world, then we fall into the trap of the nihilists who see no meaning or purpose in life. Then our view of emptiness is inspired by sadness and depression, and it becomes just another tool to shut everything down. Instead of looking at the world with joy, we see it as hopeless.