Meaning Of Life Quotes

“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or Connor, or myself. I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Ela teria de morrer, mais cedo ou mais tarde. Morta. Mais tarde haveria um tempo para essa palavra. Amanhã, e amanhã, e ainda outro amanhã arrastam-se nessa passada trivial do dia para a noite, da noite para o dia, até a última sílaba do registro dos tempos. E todos os nossos ontens não fizeram mais que iluminar para os tolos o caminho que leva ao pó da morte. Apaga-te, apaga-te, chama breve! A vida não passa de uma sombra que caminha, um pobre ator que se pavoneia e se aflige sobre o palco - faz isso por uma hora e, depois, não se escuta mais sua voz. É uma história contada por um idiota, cheia de som e fúria e vazia de significado.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Моите родители имаха огромното и изключително умерено удоволствие да живеят скромно и свито, разумно и неинтересно, безцеремонно отхвърляйки мисълта, че трябва да се потърси някакъв по-значим, освен самото живеене, смисъл в проклетия им и лайнян живот. И двамата твърдяха, че живеят заради децата си. Децата са смисълът на живота им. Това ме побъркваше, защото си казвах: „Значи смисълът и на моя живот трябва да е в децата ми. И на моите деца да е в децата им. И на децата на моите деца да е в децата им и така... Няма ли някой да се пробва и да престане да прехвърля топката? Да си намери свой собствен смисъл в своя тъп живот, без да натоварва децата си?”, казвах си. Ами аз пък не исках да съм смисъл на живота им!”
― Калин Терзийски, Алкохол

“This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.”
― Sean Carroll, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

“If you want to see, then begin to see how you see.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?”
― John Eldredge, Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

“If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.”
― Sylvia Dolson, Joy of Bears

“Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.”
― Clarence Darrow

“Everything is meaningless”
― Ecclesiastes

“I knew in that moment that everything happens for a reason, but we can’t always know the reason when the journey begins. Some things we can only understand at the end of our journey.”
― Mike Ericksen, Upon Destiny's Song

“I wasn't getting better. I was getting worse.

I did not go to the doctor because I didn't want pills. If this was going to kill me then let me be killed by it. If this was the rest of my life I could not live.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Circumstance points to deeper meaning.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Lo malo de la vida es que no sabes realmente si es un proceso descendente, no sabes en absoluto de qué se trata.”
― Philip Roth, Deception

“I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to me that we had all been invited to one big party, but no-one’s been told what we’re all celebrating.”
― Beatrice James

“Toward the end of his book, Miller explains his need to unite science and religion: science does not explain the meaning and purpose of life. That may be, but why should we assume religion explains such things any better? Just because religion attempts to answer such questions does not mean its answers are correct. And such answers never seem to achieve any consensus. What is the meaning of life? Your answer is as good as mine--or just as bad.”
― G.M. Jackson, Debunking Darwin's God: A Case Against BioLogos and Theistic Evolution

“What is the meaning of life?" asked man.
"Seek and ye shall find," said God. "That was my method."
The man replied, "How might I do that?"
"Take a setting," instructed God. "Add some dirt and water, mold it into something likeable. Let there be light to break up the darkness. Plant some trees and fruit. Don't forget to put in a few animals. Then create a few wild things that are as curious in thought as you, and let them figure the damned thing out.”
― J. Edward Vance, Provoked

“My Name Is Landon And Im 12 Years Old. Im No Philosepher Or a Religous Person. But Everyone Asks The Question, "Whats The Meaning Of Life. I Think The Meaning Is Also The Question... I Think We Live Life To Wonder... And To Ask, "What Is The Meaning Of Life". The Live To Get To The End And Find Out Why They Lived And What Was Their Purpose...”
― Landon I Taylor

“If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions”
― Duncan William Gibbons

“Science could potentially do a better job explaining the meaning of life if scientists devise experiments that can weed out the best answers from the worst. The principle difference between religion and science is as follows: the religious make stuff up to explain what they don't understand. Scientists do the same, but scientists run their ideas through a very rigorous filter that consists of logic, experimentation and peer review. Such a filter eliminates the worst ideas and preserves the best.

So if a scientist answers the question, "What is the meaning of life," his answer, at the very worst, is no less valid than an answer that comes from the highest witchdoctor or priest.”
― G.M. Jackson, Debunking Darwin's God: A Case Against BioLogos and Theistic Evolution