Top 200 Meaning of Life Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

102. “To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

— Mary Oliver

103. “Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

— Oscar Wilde

104. “Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

105. “Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?”

— Osho

106. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

— John Hughes

107. “To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

108. “Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.”

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Will Durant

110. “If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”

— Bruce Lee

111. “Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

112. “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

113. “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

— Emily Dickinson

114. “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

— William Shakespeare

115. “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

— James Dean

116. “Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.”

— Robin Williams

117. “I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”

— Rumi

118. “The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”

— Khalil Gibran

119. “I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”

— Paulo Coelho

120. “Money can’t buy life.”

— Bob Marley

121. “Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”

— Rumi

122. “Live as though life were created for you.”

— Maya Angelou

123. “So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.”

— Dan Millman

124. “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

125. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

— Henry van Dyke

126. “Live life as if it’s rigged in your favor.”

— Rumi

127. “When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”

— Tecumseh

128. “You have been a prisoner of a little pond. I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come, merge with me, leave this world of ignorance.”

— Rumi

129. “What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul – joyous, eternal.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

130. “To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”

— Victor Hugo

131. “If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”

— Thomas Merton

132. “The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.”

— Leo Tolstoy

133. “A life without a cause is a life without effect.”

— Paulo Coelho

134. “I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I’ve ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn’t get any better than that.”

— Warren Buffett

135. “Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

136. “The adventure of life is to learn...”

— William Arthur Ward

137. “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

138. “Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

139. “Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

— Omar Khayyam

140. “When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It’s very simple now. Making the lives of others better, doing something of lasting value. That’s the meaning of life, it’s that simple.”

— Temple Grandin

141. “The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

142. “We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn’t an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

143. “I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

— Jack Kerouac

144. “Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.”

— Buddha

145. “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

146. “The purpose of life is the life of purpose.”

— Robin S. Sharma

147. “I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.”

— Louise Hay

148. “What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

149. “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

150. “Do all things with love.”

— Og Mandino