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
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. ~ Barbara Sher
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. ~ Greg Anderson
When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. ~ John W. Gardner
We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for. ~ Eric Hoffer
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. ~ William J. Durant
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning in your life. ~ Paula P. Brownlee
This struggle of people against their conditions, this is where you find the meaning in life. ~ Rose Chernin
There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself. ~ Erich Fromm
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers. ~ Erich Fromm
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ~ Thornton Wilder
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~ Nelson Henderson
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. ~ Leo Tolstoy
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. ~ Ken Hudgins
The life of the individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate. ~ Albert Einstein
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only one. ~ E. M. Cioran
Take love away from life and you take away its pleasures. ~ Author Unknown
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. ~ Shirley Hufstedler
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. ~ Charles H. Parkhurst
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. ~ Eric Hoffer
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. ~ Novalis
No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men. ~ Beran W. Wolfe
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
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. ~ Aristotle
Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society. ~ Albert Einstein
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another. ~ Thomas Merton
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we’re sworn. ~ Author Unknown
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
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. ~ Henry Miller
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will. ~ Paul Gauguin
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! ~ Swahili Warrior Song
Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ~ Max Frisch
It is not what we get, but who we become, what we contribute, that gives meaning to our lives. ~ Anthony Robbins
It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life. ~ Jesse Jackson
If you want your life to be meaningful, go out and do something about it. ~ Mary Louise Wiley
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
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ~ Aristotle
Give life meaning through your commitments. ~ Paul Reinert
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
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. ~ Viktor E. Frankl
A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one. ~ Leo Buscaglia
