He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Listen – are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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.
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The meaning of your communication is the response you get.