Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
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.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Your eyes in which I travel, Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Learn the meaning of what you are saying before you speak.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire. It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Do not eat your heart. meaning: Do not worry.
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.