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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. -- Erich Fromm
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. -- Joseph Campbell
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -- Leo Tolstoy
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. -- Novalis
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. -- Henry Miller
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. -- Thomas Merton
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. -- Joseph Campbell
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' -- Max Lucado
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. -- Albert Camus
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. -- Michael Jackson
The meaning of life is life. -- Alan Alda
The meaning of life is to see. -- Huineng
I was looking for what the meaning of life was. -- Shakti Gawain
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. -- Dalai Lama
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. -- Leon Kass
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. -- Albert Camus
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. -- Shirley Hufstedler
The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love. -- Julie Benz
Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life. -- Rebecca Romijn
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. -- Vaclav Havel
Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life. -- Paul Scofield
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. -- Tokugawa Ieyasu
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. -- Emile M. Cioran
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. -- Pablo Picasso
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. -- Nelson Henderson
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. -- Erich Fromm
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. -- Alan Watts
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives. -- Tony Robbins
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. -- Toni Morrison
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. -- Zane Grey
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. -- W. Clement Stone
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. -- Phillips Brooks
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. -- Marc Chagall
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. -- Hermann Hesse
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better. -- Paula Cole
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings. -- Steven Pinker
No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers. -- Ravi Zacharias
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. -- Paul Tillich
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. -- Jean Baudrillard
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. -- Alan Watts
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life. -- Dan Buettner
We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment. -- Janine Shepherd
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change ... -- Viktor E. Frankl
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. -- Paul Kurtz
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine. -- Joko Beck
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. -- Michael Sheen
Love, life, meaning...over. -- Stephenie Meyer
Life is existence with meaning -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life without pain has no meaning. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The meaning of life is happiness. -- Dalai Lama
Purpose is what gives life meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Love gives life purpose and meaning. -- Joyce Meyer
Give life meaning through your commitments. -- Paul C. Reinert
We are the custodians of life's meaning. -- Carl Sagan
Life without purpose, is time without meaning. -- Kiley Callaway
What's the meaning of life? Other people. -- John Green
Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds. -- Robert J. Shiller
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Is death that which gives meaning to life? -- Donald Barthelme
Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning. -- Orson Scott Card
My life carries its own meaning in itself. -- Albert Schweitzer
There is always a double meaning in life... -- Nadeem v Abdu
The meaning of life is that it stops. -- Franz Kafka
"¦the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life. -- Roland Barthes
Love life more than the meaning of it? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only through communication can human life hold meaning. -- Paulo Freire
Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. -- Rick Warren
Life without dreaming is a life without meaning. -- Wale
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning. -- Etty Hillesum
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Life takes on the meaning that you give it. -- Liz Murray
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Resist doing things that have no meaning for life. -- Pablo Casals
The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.' -- Kedar Joshi
Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning. -- Kentetsu Takamori
Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. -- Julio Olalla
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. -- Joseph Campbell
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained. -- Kenneth Rexroth
The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life. -- Bill Phillips
A room without books is like a life without meaning. -- Thomas Jefferson
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation. -- Grace Paley
maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it -- David Mitchell
It is up to you to give life a meaning. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Each life contains as much meaning as all of history. -- Catherine Chung
The meaning of life is to get meaning for life. -- Wayne Dyer
Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships -- Gary Chapman
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning. -- Immanuel Kant
Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life. -- Riffat Hassan
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning. -- Annette Bening
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. -- George Carlin
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer
The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others. -- Laura Schlessinger
Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely. -- Tony Robbins
The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile. -- Tom Rath
Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. -- Jack Canfield
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning -- Ruth Bernhard
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived. -- Bruce Lee
The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life. -- Tucker Max
What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning. -- Kedar Joshi
The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within. -- Vishnudevananda Saraswati
God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning. -- J. I. Packer
Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it. -- Sidney Hook
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning -- Dick Van Dyke
The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it. -- Bryant McGill
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. -- Antoni Tapies
Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society. -- Albert Einstein

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