Meaning of Life

What is the meaning of life? Whatever you want it to be. (James Frey)

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. (Erica Jong)

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. (Forrest Gump)

Don't ask what the meaning of life is. You define it. (@viatumblr)

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. (Joseph Campbell)

The more people mean something for you and for who you mean something, the closer you get to the meaning of life. (Maurice Spees)

Life is a long lesson in humility. (James M. Barrie)

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be. (R. David Thomas)

Live every act fully, as if it were your last. (Buddha)

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Meaning of Life

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value. (Brent Weeks)

Life's about the journey, not a destination. (Anne Coleman)

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. (Albert Camus)

It is not length of life, but depth of life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. (Albert Einstein)

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good. (Aristotle)

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. (Danny Kaye)

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. (Author Unknown)

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. (Grandma Moses)

Meaning of Life

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. (The Dalai Lama)

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something moulded. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Life is simple, it's just not easy.  (Author Unknown)

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. (Author Unknown)

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

You cannot find peace by avoiding life. (Virginia Woolf)

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. (Jean-paul Sartre)

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. (Henry Ward Beecher)

The meaning of life is not to love but to be perpared to lose the love you love the most. (Curtis Kotrch)

Viktor E. Frankl: Meaning of Life

       Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D. (1905-1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy. Logotherapy, from the Greek word logos, which can mean study, word, spirit, God, or meaning.  It is this last sense Frankl focusses on, although the other meanings are never far off. The Logotherapy postulates a will to meaning. This belief sustained Frankl during his imprisonment, something he wrote about in his epic work of survival literature called Man’s Search for Meaning. It gives you a quick introduction to a man who, despite personally confronting the worst humanity had to offer, still believed in our core goodness and possibilities.

Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

A human being is a deciding being.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.