50 Life Meaning Quotes to Find Your True Purpose

1. "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." - Pablo Picasso

2. "The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity." - Leo Tolstoy

3. "There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself." - Erich Fromm

4. "What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good." - Aristotle

5. "Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming." - Myrna Loy

6. "What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful." - Dalai Lama

7. "The meaning of life is to see." - Huineng

8. "You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus

9. "Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is." - Jean-Paul Sartre

10. "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." - Rainer Maria Rilke

11. "Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give." - Shakti Gawain

12. "Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." - Harvey Fierstein

13. "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

14. "We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more." - Saint Joseph

15. "Life is problems. Living is solving problems." - Raymond E. Feist

1. "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." - Eleanor Roosevelt

2. "The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." - Alan Watts

3. "The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life." - Dalai Lama

4. "It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives." - Tony Robbins

5. "It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement." - Hermann Hesse

6. "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." Dalai Lama

7. "There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person." - Anais Nin

8. "The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation." - Michael Jackson

9. "The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can." - Paul Kurtz

10. "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." - Nelson Henderson

11. "Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

12. "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

13. "Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human." - Viktor E. Frankl

14. "For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment." - Viktor E. Frankl

15. "I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result." - Charisma Carpenter

16. "We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment." - Janine Shepherd

17. "What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions." - Reid Hoffman

18. "I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life." - David Lowery

19. "We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark." - Whoopi Goldberg

20. "Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love." - Swami Muktananda

1. "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

2. "Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal." - Jean-Paul Sartre

3. "Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning." - Henry Miller

4. “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.” - Viktor Frankl

5. "Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire." - Paul Kurtz

6. "Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility." - Reinhold Niebuhr

7. "Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will." - Paul Gauguin

8. “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

9. “The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.” - W. Somerset Maugham

10. "Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre." - Frederick Lenz

11. "Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little." - Ed Greenwood

12. "If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?" - Naguib Mahfouz

13. “When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.” - Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

14. “Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.” - Brent Weeks

15. “Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.” - Bangambiki Habyarimana