Meaningful Life Quotes

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

Live as though life was created for you.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Intentional living is the bridge to significance. At the end of every year, I take time out to reflect and evaluate the events of the previous year - what went well and what needed improvement. From that inventory, I lay out my next year - how I intend to live, make the best use of time and maximize adding value to others. Success asks, 'How can I add value to myself?' Significance asks, 'How can I add value to others?' It is your intention that lends itself to significance.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

Life should be great rather than long.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it's meaningful, then it's sustainable - and a meaningful life is a longer life.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to be more than just good, and better than just strong. And a good life, a meaningful life, a life in which we can enjoy the world and live with purpose, can only be built if we do more than live for ourselves.

I think life's too complex to be an accident.

There's not many people - only really the great ones - who realize what they were born to do.

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.