103 quotes
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
— William James
“The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”
— William Wallace
“Buy less choose well make it last and make it meaningful”
— Vivienne Westwood
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
— Pythagoras
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.”
— Aldous Huxley
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity and simplicity is the clearest path to service”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
— Mark Twain
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find it is those who inspire our faith”
— Henri Nouwen
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
— Vaclav Havel
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances but only by lack of meaning and purpose”
— Viktor Frankl
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
— Robert Byrne
“Despite everything life is full of beauty and meaning if only we have compassion enough to see it”
— Etty Hillesum
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful”
— John Maeda
“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”
— Seneca
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
— Albert Camus
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile”
— Albert Einstein
“I have always believed and I still believe that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value toward peace.”
— Hermann Hesse
“Those who have a why to live can bear with almost any how”
“Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning and healing begins there”
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how”
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
— Cicero
“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
— Aristotle
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”
— Alan Watts
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Unknown
“Less is more in art in life and in the pursuit of meaning”
— Robert Browning
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
— Joshua J. Marine
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find it is those who have shared our pain”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how”
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”
“The symbol gives rise to thought.”
— Paul Ricoeur
“Because of your smile you make life more beautiful and because of your faith you make life more meaningful”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of outcome”
“For family gives meaning to suffering and transforms tragedy into achievement.”
— Victor Frankl
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it”
— Hannah Arendt
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“For the meaning of life differs from man to man from day to day and from hour to hour.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your years”
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“Those who have a why to live can bear almost any how”
“There is only one meaning of life the act of living itself”
— Erich Fromm
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
— William Cowper
“The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“For the meaning of life differs from man to man from day to day from hour to hour and finding that meaning is where healing begins”
“A useless life is an early death.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“What matters is not whether a universe or a multiverse exists, but that ethical living remains possible.”
— Derek Parfit
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Everything in the universe has a purpose. There is nothing that is useless or without reason.”
— Aztec Proverb
“If I could tell you what it meant there would be no point in dancing it”
— Isadora Duncan
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“There is nothing outside of the text.”
— Jacques Derrida
“First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak”
— Epictetus
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
— Franz Kafka
— Dostoevsky
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
— Pearl S. Buck
“Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life.”
— Martin Seligman
“We do not live for the sake of living, but to do something worth the while.”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simple”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person means the most to us we often find it is those who instead of giving advice have chosen rather to share our pain”
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out”
“Hopeful determination is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
— Carl Jung
“It is not what we get. But who we become what we contribute that gives meaning to our lives.”
— Tony Robbins
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity through the practice of compassion”
“Although the physicality of death destroys us the idea of death saves us”
— Irvin Yalom
“Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer.”
— Jim Carrey
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something worth living for and wonder provides that reason”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
— Viktor E. Frankl
“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler. Every step toward peace matters.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Life is most meaningful when it is lived in service to others through compassion and love”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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