Quotes about Meaning of Life

“The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtures. ” ~ Joseph Roux

“There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.” ~ Max De Pree

“What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“The way I measure greatness is: How many people do you affect? In your time on earth, how many people can you affect? How many people can you make want to be better? Or how many people can you inspire?” ~ Will Smith

“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Life, if well lived, is long enough.” ~ Seneca

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” ~ Helen Keller

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” ~ Helen Keller

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller

You don’t get to say, I’m bored.

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“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless. The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.'” ~ Louis CK

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.” ~ Helen Keller

“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…” ~ Wilferd Peterson

“One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.” ~ Carol Dweck

“True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ~ Albert Einstein

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The future doesn’t lie ahead of you, waiting to happen… It lies deep inside of you, waiting to be discovered.” ~ Unknown