Quotes About Meaning

I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition.

Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!