Meaningful Quotes

“Introverts don’t see life as one big cocktail party. We’re content with just a few meaningful relationships.”
― Jenn Granneman, The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World

“The heart may be weak. And sometimes it may even give in. But I've learned that deep down, there's a light that never goes out!”
― Tetsuya Nomura

“We exist only to exist.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Live like you want, not how others want you to live.”
― anonymous

“Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“When you see people doing meaningless things, you must remind yourself that it is easier for people to do meaningless things than doing meaningful things!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good.”
― John Bruna, The Wisdom of a Meaningful Life: The Essence of Mindfulness

“less small talk
and more real talk.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Life becomes meaningful with a loving heart's gift
Upon the ocean of gratitude soul's boat adrift
Invisible expectancy tossed and turned
From the light of memories a blessed ray earned”
― Munia Khan

“There is a reason life has put you in the current circumstances,
Life will always test you, it will always try to make you stronger.
Life only wants you to be better then you were yesterday.”
― Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer

“We cannot measure a person’s value to the human race by tabulating the size of his estate. We must judge each person by his or her final contribution to humanity and nature.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Some people, like teachers and librarians and other adults, like to say that names are not important.
Like sticks and stones.
But they are wrong.
Every word you choose means something you think it means, and more.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, Anything But Typical

“Take all those things that would propose to be important, and weigh them upon the scale of your soul. Asking how much each thing actually impacts, not just the moment, but the years ahead. Discard all that is trivial masquerading as significant, and reserve your days for those things that truly matter.”
― L.M. Browning, Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations

“Dissimilar from acquiring riches and fame, which are largely products of providence, we self-manufacture our own lot of goodness. If we ground everything we do upon a moral principle and especially love, affection, and compassion, we might not accomplish all the goals that we hoped to achieve, but we will not be hampered with unyielding regret or remorse for the effort expended. If we approach each stage in life with true passion, then each step along a broken or straight path is at least honest. If we honor the commitments that we make to ourselves and act to honor all our personal obligations with other people by devoting our entire intelligence, drive, and vital life force, and do not waste our effort on greedy, wanton, or wasteful activities, we shall grow stronger. Judicious deployment of personal resources ensures that we shall experience a sense of renewal at each important milepost along the way. If we maintain our vow of faith and love people freely, an internal lightness will guide us in our time of uncertainly.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A friend of mine once told me 'For people like us, the meaning is the search for the meaning.”
― Janis Ian, Society's Child: My Autobiography

“A principled life begins by accepting the evident truth that we must die. Death becomes us. Knowledge of the impermanence of our existence reassures us that how we live does make a difference. Because our allotted time for living is finite, we must make the most of each day.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Death is more meaningful than just being dead.”
― Munia Khan

“The man who spreads hatred will become hated but it doesn’t follow that the man who spreads love will be loved. He will become despised because there are more that hate than love.”
― Daniel Kemp

“The search for purpose and meaning is fundamentally human; the uniting trait of our species.”
― Zach Mercurio, The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

“The purpose of God as a creator is based in a profound need resident within the Godhead”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impartient — and meaningless.”
― Pfister

“Life never ceases having a meaning for a humble person. The freedom of choice, the sovereignty that we hold over our own souls, enables a person to discover the meaning of his or her own life every day, even in suffering or death.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Money has the power to get, all that you want.
Money has the power to make you forget, all that you want.”
― Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer

“Remember, life is a bit tough most of the time.
Also remember, if it was easy it would be boring.”
― Akash Lakhotia, World Hypnotized: Making of the Fuhrer

“We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life’s tragic beauty.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“...monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.”
― Ravi Zacharias, The Real Face of Atheism

“There are easier ways to die than just live.”
― Daniel Kemp

“What you do will only ever be as good as WHY you do it.”
― Zach Mercurio, The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

“That’s perhaps the easiest way to distill what makes something (especially an experience, in this case) meaningful: the ease with which it fits into our idea of purpose and aligns with what is relevant to us.”
― Kate O'Neill, Pixels and Place: Connecting Human Experience Across Physical and Digital Spaces