Quotes on Meaning Of Life

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

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.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

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.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting value. That's the meaning of life, it's that simple.