Meaning Of Life Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of meaning of life quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.”
– Alan Cohen

“Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.”
– Alan Cohen

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
– Alan Watts

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
– Albert Camus

“If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.”
– Albert Camus

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.”
– Albert Einstein

“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know – that man is here for the sake of other men.”
– Albert Einstein

“The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value – that is, something that makes living worthwhile.”
– Alister E. McGrath

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
– Anaïs Nin

“Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn’t, you died- or stopped growing – which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best.”
– Ann Aguirre

“Life’s about the journey, not a destination.”
– Anne Coleman

“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”
– Anthony de Mello

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.”
– Aristotle

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. “What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle

“Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant

“I ask of life to shine meaning in everyone who is searching.”
– Aurora Hernandez

“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”
– Barbara Hall

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. ”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.”
– Bernard Meltzer

“Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.”
– Brent Weeks

“In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.”
– Brodi Ashton

“As far as we are able to understand, the only aim of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
– Carl Jung

“I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.”
– Charisma Carpenter

“I don’t know the meaning of life. I don’t know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it’s a complete mystery.”
– Charles M. Schulz

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
– Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– Christopher Columbus

“We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question ‘what must I do?’ disappears. When you discover who you are (at the deepest place of your being) you will find your purpose.”
– Colleen-Joy Page

“To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
– Confucius

“Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.”
– Criss Jami

“Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I’ll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that’s what I call pure, honest fun.”
– Criss Jami

“In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.”
– Dalai Lama

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
– Dalai Lama

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