Best 97 quotes in «meaningful life quotes» category

A happy life is defined by seeking pleasure and enjoyment, whereas a meaningful life is bigger.

The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

As beings conscious of our own consciousness, we don’t want our lives defined so much as we want them explained. We want to understand why we are here, what we are to do with this life and according to what principles we are to live. We want to know whether our lives mean anything and if they do, in what that meaning consists and how we are to secure it.

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible. For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

Besides, before contemplating starting a new life, you need to make something of this one.

A life without purpose is meaningless

Bushwhacking through unchartered territory is how you discover who you are and what you’re here for. Getting lost is how you find your way. There is no other way.

business of man is to be happy,

Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by contrast, unique skills requiring mastery and expertise, like the skills of a brain surgeon, are safe from the threat of commoditization.

Chase your dreams! Never doubt your capabilities to come out a winner. Struggle hard but never give up the chase to achieve your dreams!

Connecting to the real world is what I have been missing lately when I shelter inside my own cocoon and a wren flies to remove all the webs of transitions.

But I don’t want an easy life. I want a meaningful one.

Don't give up. Life is a journey. And we are here to inspire each other. To touch each other's hearts. We are born for a purpose. We must find our purpose in life. And live our life for that purpose.

Dreams, desires, destiny, and difficulties in life make it a magical and meaningful fairytale.

Each of us is getting an auspicious chance to reflect personally on why we are here and how we will lead.

Discover what you need to do to make your life have meaning.

Each person you meet has something to teach you. Learn from each person!

Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

Every part of your chaos will lead you to light!

How many infinite lives have been lived since man first had consciousness or awareness of his soul? And how many of those souls have stared up at the stars in wonder; pondered the meaning of their existence, the meaning of life, the thoughts of their ancestors, dreamed of the futures of his offspring and the purpose of all that is man? How long will we wander before the truth is found?

How can people waste their entire lives chasing meaningless things? A meaningful life is lived when you pursue a passion or chase a dream. A passion for something or a dream that makes the world a little better than what it was before!

I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information like that, while so many other more important memories evaporate. Then again, I suppose so much of what stays with us is often insignificant. The memories we take to the ends of our lives have no real rhyme or reason, especially when you think of the endless things that you do over the course of a day, a week, a month, a year, a lifetime. All the cups of coffee, hand-washings, changes of clothes, lunches, goings to the bathroom, headaches, naps, walks to school, trips to the grocery store, conversations about the weather—all the things so unimportant they should be immediately forgotten. Yet they aren’t. I often think of the Chinese red bathrobe I had when I was twenty-seven years old; the sound of our first cat Charlie’s feet on the linoleum of our old house; the hot rarefied air around aluminum pot the moment before the kernels of popcorn burst open. I think of these things as often as I think about getting married or giving birth or the end of the Second World War. What is truly amazing is that before you know it, sixty years go by and you can remember maybe eight or nine important events, along with a thousand meaningless ones. How can that be? You want to think there’s a pattern to it all because it makes you feel better, gives you some sense of a reason why we’re here, but there really isn’t any. People look for God in these patterns, these reasons, but only because they don’t know where else to look. Things happen to us: some of it important, most of it not, and a little of it stays with us till the end. What stays after that? I’ll be damned if I know. (pp.174-175)

If you have someone in your life who makes you feel loved and cared and inspires you then you are truly blessed!

I have been inside your heart all along this journey.

I have to learn to love myself more before anyone else. When I look at myself in the mirror, I got to like myself for who I am and for who I have become as a Man!

I have to learn to love myself more before anyone else. When I look at myself in the mirror, I got to like myself for who I am and for who I have become as a person!

I love that moment when she shyly asks me: Writer Sahab how are you?

Happiness will never invite you to the party. Happiness simply comes down to a choice to show up each and every day on the world with passion, purpose, place and meaning.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

If even one person says that I inspired him or her to become a better version of himself or herself then I will feel happy. But wearing branded clothes, holding high designations, and possessing cool visiting cards don't allure me. That's not how legends are made!

If only I could dive deep into your thoughts and know what you are thinking right now.

If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask "What can the world offer to me?" but "What can I offer to the world?

In Egyptian Arabic, the word 'insan' means 'human'. If we remove the 'n', the word becomes 'insa', which means 'to forget'. So you see, the word 'forget' is taken from the word 'human'. And since it was God who created our minds and hearts, He knew from the very beginning that we would quickly forget our history, only to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. So the ultimate test of every human is to seek wisdom. After all, wisdom is gained from having a good memory. Only after we have passed this test will we evolve to become better humans. Man is only a forgetful mortal, but God — He sees, hears and remembers everything.

In your eyes there are countless stars yet to be discovered. Why will I look for another sky?

It is what it is because you let it be so.

It’s time to shun the sure thing and the status quo. Time to boldly leap into the void with an idea that might not work (but then again, just might). Lean into your endeavor, even though it’s very likely to not turn out exactly as you imagine.

In this journey of life, you will meet people who will make you feel alive!

It is in broken places where light shines through. Never feel sad at being a little broken.

I used to think of work as a bad word. Back in the corporate world, work was something that prevented me from living, something that kept me from feeling satisfied or fulfilled or passionate. Even the word itself carried with it a negative connotation. Work—bluck! When I left the corporate world, I swore off the word altogether. Noun, verb, adjective—I avoided all of work’s iterations. I no longer ‘went to work,’ so that was easy to remove from my vocabulary. In fact, I no longer ‘worked’ at all; instead I replaced the word with a more specific verb: I would ‘write’ or ‘teach’ or ‘speak’ or ‘volunteer,’ but I refused to ‘work.’ I no longer went to the gym to ‘workout’; instead I ‘exercised.’ And I stopped wearing ‘work clothes’; I chose instead to wear ‘dress clothes.’ And I avoided getting ‘worked up,’ preferring to call it ‘stress’ or ‘anxiety.’ And I didn’t bring my car to the shop to get ‘worked on,’ deciding instead to have my vehicle ‘repaired.’ Hell, I even avoided ‘handiwork’ 92 and ‘housework,’ selecting their more banal alternatives. Suffice it to say, I wanted nothing to do with the word. I wanted it not only stricken from my lexicon, but from my memory, erasing every shred of the thing that kept me from pursuing my dream for over a decade. But after a year of that nonsense, I realized something: it wasn’t the word that was bad; it was the meaning I gave to the word. It took removing the word from my everyday speech for a year to discover that it wasn’t a bad word at all. During that year, I had been pursuing my dream, and guess what—when I looked over my shoulder at everything I’d accomplished, I realized that pursuing my dream was, in fact, a lot of work. It took a lot of work to grow a website. It took a lot of work to publish five books. It took a lot of work to embark on a coast-to-coast tour. It took a lot of work to teach my first writing class. It took a lot of work to pursue my dream. Work wasn’t the problem. What I did as my work was the problem. I wasn’t passionate about my work before—my work wasn’t my mission—and so I wanted to escape from work so I could live a more rewarding life, looking to balance out the tedium of the daily grind. But work and life don’t work that way. Even when you’re pursuing your dream, there will be times of boredom and stress and long stretches of drudgery. That’s alright. It’s all worth it in the end. When your work becomes your life’s mission, you no longer need a work-life balance.

I work every day to live my life in such a way that when I take my last breath, I will be satisfied I made a difference and I was an inspiration; that I left something behind that will be meaningful to society; I did not shame my family, disappoint my friends or ruin my good name.

Let us not forget to be human while practicing self-love!

Like the river, keep on flowing.

Luxury cannot cure poverty

Meaning cannot be found, it should be created every hour of every day

Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the world of myth means losing the sense that life is deeply meaningful, full of meanings trying to be revealed at each twist and turn in the ongoing drama.

I was never very fond of four-letter words but there was once a man who called me Hope; and I spent four long summers craving to find its synonyms.

Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth - at least the metaphysical.

Life is defined not by the number of moments but rather by the moments that take your breath away.