Quotes about the meaning of life

Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking.

—Lee Ann Womack

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

—Paulo Coelho

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no perfection, only life.

—Milan Kundera

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

—François Rabelais

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

—Maya Angelou

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

—William Hazlitt

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

—Mae West

There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

—Nelson Mandela

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

—Oprah Winfrey

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

—George Bernard Shaw

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

—Bruce Lee

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

—William Osler

Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.

— Buddha

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

—Robert Byrne

We pass through this world but once.

—Stephen Jay Gould

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.

—Rose Kennedy

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

—Lewis Carroll

Life is tough my darling, but so are you.

—Stephanie Bennett Henry

There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

—Kurt Vonnegut

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

―Philip Appleman

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

—Anne Frank

Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.

—Albert Camus

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

—Rainbow Rowell

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

—Vivian Greene

The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.

—Amanda Gorman

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

—Anais Nin

The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

—Frank Herbert

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

—Oscar Wilde

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