Quotes on Meaning Of Life

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.