Meaningful Life Quotes

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“The greatest challenge in life is to be our own person and accept that being different is a blessing and not a curse. A person who knows who they are lives a simple life by eliminating from their orbit anything that does not align with his or her overriding purpose and values. A person must be selective with their time and energy because both elements of life are limited.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“As human beings, we have an innate need to create and innovate from within ourselves to address our own concerns, and writing helps fulfill that need.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live is only one among innumerable ways of life which humans have adopted. If we glance sideways and backwards, we will quickly discover that modern society, with its many possibilities and seducing offers, its dizzying complexity and its impressive technological advances, is a way of life which has not been tried out for long. Perhaps, psychologically speaking, we have just left the cave: in terms of the history of our species, we have but spent a moment in modern societies. (..) Anthropology may not provide the answer to the question of the meaning of life, but at least it can tell us that there are many ways in which to make a life meaningful.”
― Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

“We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth, love, beauty, and adoration of nature.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. When the sky outside is merely pink, and the rooftops merely black: that photographic mind which paradoxically tells the truth, but the worthless truth, about the world. It is that synthesizing spirit, that "shaping" force, which prolifically sprouts and makes up its own worlds with more inventiveness than God which I desire. If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“When you don't get love, learn to love yourself more!”
― Avijeet Das

“With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for longing. He has time to fill, but there is nothing compelling to do.”
― Daniel Klein, Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life

“Do not seek a love that you desire. True love finds you on its own!”
― Avijeet Das

“We are born once and we celebrate our birthday every year till our death but to be celebrated every year after our death makes our birth meaningful”
― J. Nedumaan

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Pamela Cox

“The cumulative, profound loss that we have collectively experienced would cause any sentient being to become depressed, anxious, and isolated. Yet, instead of rejecting this paradigm to make time for the things that connect us to each other and fill our lives with significance, inertia often wins. It is simply too easy to opt for handy, addictive, second-rate experiences that leave us feeling hollow and hopeless. We are like children with a comforting, nourishing meal within our grasp, yet we gorge ourselves on the candy pile dumped directly in front of us, even as our souls feel increasing nausea with each bite. The saccharine stupor disorients us, so we can no longer even intuit what we need. We just know we feel adrift, with a voracious hunger for something that we cannot name.”
― Kate Kretz, Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice

“A life of death is the death of life. We do not know what comes after death, but in the context of life, we do know that when we die, our loved ones will miss us, and we can never be brought back to life ever again.”
― Billy Poon, The Why Of Life: Why We Live Without Purpose and How to Find Meaning in a Pointless Life

“A life lived is enough to make it worthwhile.”
― Billy Poon, The Why Of Life: Why We Live Without Purpose and How to Find Meaning in a Pointless Life

“The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They suddenly become less important and there is a wonderful freedom in that as well.”
― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

“Only the sensual aspects of our life have any meaning.”
― Lebo Grand

“Live the remaining years of your life while moving from karma to dharma each day.”
― Master Del Pe, Higher Science of Longevity

“When humans deliberately 'live' with a meaningful purpose that lets them evolve, and they assist others in their path, then they are living their greatest life and maximizing their human potential.

What makes a person dynamically alive is their life's purpose aligned to their highest, best self-potential.”
― Master Del Pe, Higher Science of Longevity

“Modern life is an interplay between chaos and clarity, where the pursuit of meaning lies not in what we achieve, but in how we connect—with ourselves, others, and the timeless truths that ground us.”
― Sandeep Chavan

“Urip itu hidup, artinya segalanya. Hanya dalam hidup segalanya punya makna, punya arti.”
― Arswendo Atmowiloto, Senopati Pamungkas

“The best place to live is the one where your friends are.”
― Daniel Melgaço

“Focus on developing and transforming your life. When you take steps that lead to a meaningful life, you will enjoy each day that comes.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes

“Conquer loneliness in your life. Do not forget you are a complete human, capable of living a meaningful life with or without a partner by your side.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes

“You wake up one morning. You hear a voice in your head, telling you to make a change in your life. This change will may be for the better of your loved ones. Listen to that voice. Go ahead. Make that decision. You may have to face difficulties. But you will be on the path to leading a more fulfilling life.”
― Avijeet Das

“You wake up one morning. You hear a voice in your head, telling you to make a change in your life. This change may be for the better of your loved ones. Listen to that voice. Go ahead. Make that decision. You may have to face difficulties. But you will be on the path to leading a more fulfilling life.”
― Avijeet Das

“He said slowly, "You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.”
― John Edward Williams

“Modern society tends to operate in ways that isolate us in our littleness. We are encouraged to be consumers and economic units. We are assailed by advertising which carries the constant message that individual indulgence is all that matters. All this serves to weaken our spirit and put our world at risk. As our society becomes more and more spiritually impoverished, it is like a forest drying out in the heat of summer. The danger of a forest fire grows.
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If the story we are living is not important, then our life will peter into apathy and we will be defenceless against tyranny and oppression.
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There will always be bad big stories waiting to sweep us away. Indeed, we are already involved in them. By being consumer citizens we collude with all manner of ill: factory farming, armaments production, environmental damage, wars to protect oil supplies, third world debt, to name but a few. It is important to do better than this, to find a more noble story.
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The Buddha enabled many people to see possibilities for their lives that they had not perceived before they met him. That is the function of a sage. He was able to speak the other person's language and to see their life in terms of the bigger picture how new meaning could be injected into the person's little story so that it began to serve the great story of peace and compassion in the world. He was an inspirer.”
― David Brazier, The Feeling Buddha: A Buddhist Psychology of Character, Adversity and Passion

“And in life, the meaning comes in living, as wholly as we can, as abundantly as we can, as bravely as we can, here and now, sharing the experience with others, caring for others as we care for ourselves, and accepting our responsibility for leaving the world better than we found it.”
― James Hemming, Individual morality

“A writer does not belong to one village, one city, one town, or one country. A writer belongs to the world...”
― Avijeet Das