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