Meaning Of Life Quotes And Sayings

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“Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.”
– Melina Marchetta

“The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature–all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn’t care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal’s behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes extinct.”
– Michael Crichton

“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”
– Michael Jackson

“The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.”
– Montaigne

“We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.”
– Muriel Barbery

“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.”
– N. Scott Momaday

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
– Nelson Henderson

“Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.”
– Norman Cousins

“Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.”
– Norman Cousins

“Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.”
– Novalis

“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.”
– Pablo Casals

“The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.”
– Pablo Casals

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
– Pablo Picasso

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
– Patanjali

“I learned that one person hurting another really is like a hand curling into a fist to smash the foot. And that all that really matters is family and other people. And that the purpose of life is to find the Light of God, but not the light from some old guy with a beard sitting up there judging us. The light is the love we give each other on our way back home. And that God wouldn’t mind if we spent a little less time telling him how great he is and a little more time loving each other, and not just the people we’re supposed to love, but everyone.”
– Paul H. Magid

“The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.”
– Paul Kurtz

“Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.”
– Paul Tillich

“If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It’s one way to answer the question, ‘What is the meaning of life?’ I feel music answers it better.”
– Paula Cole

“The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.”
– Peter Ustinov

“Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.”
– Philip Appleman

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One leads to the other.”
– Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
– Raymond E. Feist

“Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.”
– Rebecca Romijn

“What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.”
– Reid Hoffman

“I’m just an actress, you know? An entertainer: a player. I mean sure I recycle and buy unbleached coffee filters and all like that. But in the big scheme of things, I feel like my real contribution is more to try to affect people’s FEELINGS, if that makes any sense. So when they would look at a tree, they’d just naturally feel like: Wow, a TREE – you know? They’d feel a different way about the world so they’d act differently, without having to actually change their rational thoughts and ideas first. Because it seems like that’s what people overlook – they argue with each other in WORDS when words are pretty much secondary.”
– Richard Grant

“The first part of the Answer to the Question of the ‘Meaning of Life’ is about the way to truly Live. And that is to love and be loved by the people in your life with all your heart, and to seek to live in the Now – to strive to be present with them, and remember this mission and purpose through the struggles and the joy, and to share together the amazing journey of life. The second part is to see Life as more than your own life and your own time. To see that throughout time, humanity has shared a vision of ‘peace on earth’. And though it is an impossible dream, only a life lived in service to humanity – in honor of this shared goal – can help to validate the struggles of the 93 billion people who have lived and died, the 7 billion dreams of those alive today, and the hope of humanity to come. The third is to find a balance between the two – between living your individual life to the fullest, while striving to help humanity evolve to a higher consciousness of compassion, meaning and purpose.”
– Robert Alan Silverstein

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
– Robert Byrne

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it’s an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives…Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.”
– Robert McKee

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