Top 1200 What Is The Meaning Of Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.

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

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully. I like throwing images together, which create meaning if you listen to it one time, but if you listen to it another time you might get a different meaning.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.

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

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.

You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

I have a purpose and a meaning in life, and I have to fulfill that. Being a champion is great, but more importantly than that, you get to be an inspiration and a role model to other people.

Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand, engages you, enthralls and satisfies you, it contributes to the meaning of your life

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your life - including your pain - as a means through which God can work to bring others to Himself.

The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

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

The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.

I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end.

Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.