Top 200 Meaning Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”

— Gilda Radner

152. “Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

153. “Your calling isn't something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. Nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

154. “All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”

— Aldous Huxley

155. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

156. “I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don’t want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

— Jim Carrey

157. “Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.”

— Og Mandino

158. “You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”

— Eckhart Tolle

159. “Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”

— Carl Sagan

160. “What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

161. “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

162. “Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”

— Natalie Babbitt

163. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

— Rumi

164. “Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.”

— Demi Lovato

165. “Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.”

— Sivananda

166. “A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”

— James Allen

167. “If tomorrow doesn’t happen, would you still do what you’re about to do today? If that answer is no, you’re alive, but you’re not living.”

— Greg Plitt

168. “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

169. “To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.”

— Thomas Merton

170. “Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.”

— Rumi

171. “Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.”

— Rumi

172. “Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

— Khalil Gibran

173. “The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

174. “The meaning of your communication is the response you get.”

— Gregory Bateson

175. “One must give value to one’s existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

176. “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

177. “Each minute of life should be a divine quest.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

178. “There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.”

— Oprah Winfrey

179. “Your success and happiness lie in you.”

— Helen Keller

180. “Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.”

— Adi Shankara

181. “The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life.”

— Bill Phillips

182. “Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

— Eckhart Tolle

183. “Our real journey in life is interior; it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.”

— Thomas Merton

184. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

— Rumi

185. “Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.”

— Henry David Thoreau

186. “The chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have. That’s what’s going to define you.”

— Denzel Washington

187. “The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

— Henry David Thoreau

188. “It is up to you to give life a meaning.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

189. “Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

190. “The function of man is to live, not to exist.”

— Jack London

191. “With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.”

— Rumi

192. “Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

193. “Long you live and high you fly. And smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry. And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.”

— Roger Waters

194. “At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

195. “Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”

— C.G. Jung

196. “There is nothing outside the text.”

— Jacques Derrida

197. “Don’t save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.”

— Thomas S. Monson

198. “People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

— Paulo Coelho

199. “Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.”

— Pio of Pietrelcina

200. “What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.”

— Rumi