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We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that. -- Johnathon Schaech
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. -- Stephen Hawking
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. -- Walter Kaufmann
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. -- Muhammad Iqbal
I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself. -- Dani Shapiro
In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man. -- Dennis Prager
Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?' -- Parker Palmer
Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives. -- Dalai Lama
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. -- Viktor E. Frankl
To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life. -- Brian Tracy
Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose. -- Laurence Boldt
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life. -- Desmond Tutu
We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives. -- Rick Warren
The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silver or gold. -- Andy Andrews
Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you. -- Susan Jeffers
Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life. -- Sathya Sai Baba
In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose. -- Dave Hunt
How are you going to keep your workplace engaged, retained, active and motivated? It all comes down to what kind of meaning and purpose can you provide. -- Marc Kielburger
All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God. -- John Piper
It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence. -- David Simon
At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death. -- Delmore Schwartz
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance. -- A. Powell Davies
When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion. -- Nancy Pearcey
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. -- Stephen Hawking
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales. -- Alan Watts
Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives. -- Brene Brown
That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good. -- Jerry Bridges
The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose. -- Gary Zukav
Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text. -- Greg Graffin
The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning of books are only a means to this end. We develop power and courage and determination and we go out to achieve Truth, Wisdom and Justice. If we do not come to this, the cost of schooling is wasted. -- John B. Watson
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose -- Martin Seligman
Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning. -- Jeane Dixon
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? -- Charles M. Schulz
The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life. -- Gary Zukav
For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison. -- Kathryn Bigelow
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. -- Barbara de Angelis
If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes. -- Jackson Katz
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. -- Mitch Albom
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose. -- Walter Kaufmann
We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is. -- Arthur Middleton
Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose. -- Eric Liu
When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day. -- Tom Rath
Purpose is what gives life meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Love gives life purpose and meaning. -- Joyce Meyer
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Life without purpose, is time without meaning. -- Kiley Callaway
Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. -- Rick Warren
Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives. -- Brene Brown
Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives. -- Brene Brown
Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning. -- Kentetsu Takamori
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose. -- Herbie Hancock
In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life. -- Veronica Roth
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. -- Will Durant
Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not "sobriety" and meetings. -- Stanton Peele
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose. -- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. -- Rick Warren
You see, there is no more purpose or meaning in the world than you put into it. -- Hans Reichenbach
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. -- Aristotle
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. -- Pablo Picasso
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. -- Pablo Picasso
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. -- Carl Jung
When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. -- Aristotle
The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children. -- David Jeremiah
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion. -- Ani DiFranco
The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution. -- Stephen Covey
I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response. -- Charlton Heston
Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. -- Dean Koontz
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. -- Rick Warren
The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning. -- Rod Stryker
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility. -- David W Augsburger
We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering. -- Brene Brown
Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again. -- Ken Kesey
We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering. -- Brene Brown
Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day. -- Austin Carlile
A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success. -- Michael Josephson
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose. -- Basil Bunting
Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment. -- Dan Miller
Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose. -- Doris Grumbach
When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning. -- Warren Farrell
The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it. -- Janet Morris
Instead of pondering the meaning of life, create it. Bring forth a purpose that has grown from the depths of your soul. Water it everyday. -- Dylan Ozmore
I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter. -- Christopher Reeve
Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world--and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc. -- Ken Ham
Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning. -- Debbie Ford
Justice William Brennan stated that the phrase 'under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional because it no longer has a religious purpose or meaning. -- Mathew Staver
Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death. -- Sarah Strohmeyer
Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle. -- Kano Jigoro
We all construct worldviews that give us a sense of meaning. Mostly it is about belonging to a group and having a sense of identity and purpose. -- Carmen Lawrence
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning -- Barbara de Angelis
In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made. -- Solomon Caesar Malan
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. -- David Viscott
Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it. -- Sigurd F. Olson
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? -- Freeman Dyson
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end. -- Rick Warren
To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder. -- Mardy Grothe
You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession. -- Satish Kumar
Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return. -- Peter McWilliams
We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give. -- George H. W. Bush
The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope. -- Peter Kreeft

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