Quotes on Meaning Of Life

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.

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.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of even Newton or Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. It is not just a wonderful idea. It is a dangerous idea.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

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.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.