Best Life Means Quotes

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.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

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.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

My ‘must-have’ was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me.

It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away –
that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?

Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

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.

Changing your life means changing your past.

We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

That is art: to give all you have. And what have you?
Your life – nothing more.
And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

You may not control life’s circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

There’s no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

Man’s right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment or, in other words, his right to be rich.

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.

You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day, without much passion or enthusiasm for life. Meanwhile, your talents remain untapped, buried somewhere deep inside. This is an awful way to live.

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.

I was giving a lecture and I said, that’s enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let’s talk about the life of a photograph. And in that one instant I got the title for a potential next book.

I don’t need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

Vice, virtue – it’s best not to be too moral. You’ll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Give life meaning through your commitments.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.