Quotes on Meaning Of Life

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life.

The meaning of life is happiness.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - _x000D_ that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.

Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

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.

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.