1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Crap.It's all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn't anybody realize this?

The ordinary man gets motivation from power and fame. The superior finds motivation in meaning and work itself.

Joy flows to the depth of the meaning you give to the moment. Remember, every moment is a gift. Treat it with gratitude.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Live for nothing but the joy of being alive.

The more we realize our selves, the less they seem to be our selves, as if the world-soul merely wishes to reflect itself through our eyes. The less self-important we are, the more important we are as selves, with a unique perspective on the cosmos.

You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.