Meaningful Life Quotes
Meaningful Life Quote of the day
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.
It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.
Deep human connection is ... the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living.
Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.
Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.
Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.
Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.
Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.
Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.
Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.
Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.
The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!
What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?
It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.
The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.
If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.
Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.
You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
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.
I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.
I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.