Meaning Of Life Quotes - Page 2

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.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

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

There is wisdom in waves. Some surfers see it right away, others never do. To find success in surfing, we must learn to be in harmony with nature. This will bring a sense of peace. By sharing this peace, and contributing to other people's happiness, we can find the true meaning of life. Keep surfing . . .

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple, Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves... Some hold it in their hearts.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life? Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, it at all, only at its end, on the verge of death?

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

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.

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love.

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

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

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.