1,047 Quotes About Meaning-of-life

Soon earth will cover us all. Then in time earth, too, will change; later, what issues from this change will itself in turn incessantly change, and so again will all that then takes its place, even unto the world's end. to let the mind dwell on these swiftly rolling billows of change and transformation is to know a contempt for all things mortal.

Wolves don't perform in a circus, and people with a mind of their own, don't perform in a circus either.

When we are sad we understand life!

Americans like to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like. And then they wonder why they're not happy.

True happiness is not found in people, places, or things. It is found in our own hearts.

Philosophy starts when we question ourselves and search for meaning in our lives.

To keep faith in mortal life, then, is to remain vulnerable to a pain that no strength can finally master. Mortality is not only intrinsic to what makes life meaningful, but also makes life susceptible to lose meaning and become unbearable. The point is not to overcome this vulnerability but to recognize that it is an essential part of why our lifes matter and why we care. (49)

My idea of adventure is climbing on a rooftop thirty feet from the ground," Jay Kirkman said. "I want to know that if I fall there's going to be a net to catch me.

Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it.