Top 200 Meaning Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.”

— Khalil Gibran

103. “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

— Victor Hugo

104. “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

— George Bernard Shaw

105. “We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

106. “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”

— Anaïs Nin

107. “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

108. “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.”

— Bob Marley

109. “The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.”

— Guy Kawasaki

110. “The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.”

— Hermann Hesse

111. “Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.”

— Epictetus

112. “The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a ‘semantic disturbance’ is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.”

— Alfred Korzybski

113. “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”

— Arthur Ashe

114. “For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

115. “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

— Joseph Campbell

116. “This is your life, are you who you want to be?”

— Switchfoot

117. “Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”

— Maya Angelou

118. “The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do, but are avoiding.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

119. “God planted a dream in your heart for a reason. No one else can dream it for you. No one else will accomplish it for you.”

— Joel Osteen

120. “The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, this you will become.”

— James Allen

121. “The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.”

— Bruce Lee

122. “He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.”

— Saint Augustine

123. “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

124. “The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.”

— Myles Munroe

125. “The only journey is the one within.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

126. “But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”

— Paulo Coelho

127. “I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

— Eric Roth

128. “Listen – are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

— Mary Oliver

129. “Every man dies, not every man really lives.”

— Randall Wallace

130. “Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?”

— Konstantin Stanislavski

131. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”

— Rumi

132. “As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

133. “Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.”

— Appius Claudius Caecus

134. “For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.”

— Denzel Washington

135. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

— Norman Cousins

136. “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

— Rumi

137. “Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

— Khalil Gibran

138. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”

— Oprah Winfrey

139. “Ad astra per aspera. Translated: “to the stars through difficulties”.”

— John James Ingalls

140. “Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.”

— Oprah Winfrey

141. “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

142. “Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

143. “I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”

— Hermann Hesse

144. “The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

— C.G. Jung

145. “Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.”

— Kelly McGonigal

146. “Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.”

— Lou Holtz

147. “Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.”

— Sasha Azevedo

148. “Money can’t buy life.”

— Bob Marley

149. “My mom said there’s a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.”

— Cheryl Strayed

150. “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

— Samuel Ullman