Quotes About Meaning

There is an entire generation who was too young to read 'The Purpose Driven Life' 10 years ago but are now asking the critical question, 'What on earth am I here for?'

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.

Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.

How plotless real life was!

Your life is worth much more than gold.

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

A historian is interested in the past because he is interested in life... a deeply felt need to assure the continuity of human life and discover its meaning, even if the goal is never fully realized.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.