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Quotes About Meaning

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every single day, you're trading your life for who you're working with and what you do.
~ John Assaraf
I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him
~ Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
Death is a continuation of my life without me...
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?
~ Isaac Asimov, The Last Answer
You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain.
~ Emily Dickinson
That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.
~ Michel de Montaigne
This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
~ Bo Bennett
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.
~ Mary Steenburgen
You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'
~ Rick Warren
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.
~ Tim Tebow
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.
~ Ann Voskamp
I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
~ Tom Landry
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
~ Danny Thomas
Success isn't always going to be a huge contract success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
~ Allan Houston