Top 200 Meaning Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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2. “In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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3. “Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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4. “The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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5. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi

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6. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

— Rumi

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7. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

— Osho

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8. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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9. “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”

— C. S. Lewis

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10. “Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.”

— Lao Tzu

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11. “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”

— Saint Augustine

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12. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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13. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— Helen Keller

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14. “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

— Gail Devers

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15. “When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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16. “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

— William Ernest Henley

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17. “Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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18. “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

— Helen Keller

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19. “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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20. “The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

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21. “If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Universe Quotes

22. “For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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23. “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

24. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”

— William G.T. Shedd

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25. “If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together.”

— Ratan Tata

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26. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

— Seneca

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27. “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”

— Seneca

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28. “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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29. “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

— Nelson Henderson

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30. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

— Helen Keller

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31. “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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32. “Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.”

— C.G. Jung

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33. “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

— Frederick Buechner

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34. “Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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35. “Live to learn and you will really learn to live.”

— John C. Maxwell

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36. “Be yourself, no matter what they say.”

— Sting

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37. “Think higher, feel deeper.”

— Elie Wiesel

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38. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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39. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”

— Francis Chan

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40. “Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.”

— Jim Rohn

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41. “Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.”

— Drake

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42. “Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”

— Paulo Coelho

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43. “To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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44. “To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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45. “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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46. “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

— T. S. Eliot

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47. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

— Khalil Gibran

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48. “A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step.”

— Laozi

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49. “It’s just a ride.”

— Bill Hicks

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50. “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”

— Thomas Merton

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