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.
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.
It is up to you to give life a meaning.
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.
My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what’s so.
It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever. I just wanna live while I’m alive. It’s my life.
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.