We know that you are sick of hearing inspirational quotes, especially when you are going through tough times. However, the right words can surely motivate us and make us feel alive again.
You might have unstable mental health, and your issues are long-term and hard to shake. You might go through a sensitive period where you cannot manage the anxiety, depression, and negative thoughts growing inside you. In these times, there seems to be no meaning in your life, and it understandable.
We are all different and have our mission in life. Some seek a career that involves working hard hours on a complex project, other love adventures and only dream about living a courageous life.
The quotes that we have gathered have the purpose of making your life brighter. They allow you to discover the light of your life, the path that you need to follow to find your happiness.
We decided to create a list of one hundred beautiful meaning of life quotes, supporting you to search for the essence instead of material things. They will hopefully open your eyes to a more positive view.
Quotes about Purpose
- “I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it’s not just divinely assigned.” – Michael J. Fox;
- “God has a purpose for your pain, a reason for your struggle and a gift for your faithfulness. Don’t give up.” ― Anonymous;
- “The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purpose to do.” – Pablo Casals;
- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle;
- “The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.” – Johanna Paungger;
- “Life is like a poetry, without meaning or purpose – it’s useless.” – Jawwad Zafar;
- “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” ―The Dalai Lama;
- “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honour him for what he is.” ―Hermann Hesse;
- “Figure out what your purpose is in life, what you really and truly want to do with your time and your life; then be willing to sacrifice everything and then some to achieve it. If you are not willing to make the sacrifice, then keep searching.” – Quintina Ragnacci;
- “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov;
- “The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.” – Thomas Carlyle;
- “The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.” – Michel de Montaigne;
- “To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.” – James Allen;
- “When you find your WHY, you don’t hit snooze no more! You find a way to make it happen!” – Eric Thomas;
- “When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located and that we, adults, are its servants – that that’s our purpose.” Karl Ove Knausgard;
- “The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.” – Charles Dickens;
- “You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.” – Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free;
- “By setting and pursuing goals, you have nothing to lose but a lot to gain. It has been scientifically proven that people who set goals are more fulfilled and positive about life. Having a purpose to wake up to each day will challenge us and give us meaning.” – Zoe McKey;
- “The two most important days in life are the day you born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain;
- “The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with the truth.” ―Eliza Farnham;
Inspiring Life Quotes
- “People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” – Dalai Lama;
- “To be inspired is great, to inspire is incredible.” ― Anonymous;
- “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell;
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson;
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs;
- “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel;
- “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want.” – Oprah Winfrey;
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde;
- “You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.” – Margaret Young;
- “The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet – they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.” – Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed;
- “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua Marine;
- “True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.” – Pliny the Elder;
- “Never give up. Today is hard tomorrow will be worse, but the after tomorrow will be sunshine.” – Jack Ma;
- “If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger―something that matters.” – Blake Mycoskie;
- “The self is made, not given.” – Barbara Myerhoff;
- “Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” – Mary Anne Radmacher;
- “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life;
- “The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.” – Barbara Hall;
- “Some people say you are going the wrong way when it’s simply a way of your own.” — Angelina Jolie;
- “Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.” – Bryant H. McGill;
Quotes about Finding your Path
- “There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honour your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “A life without cause is a life without effect.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Let the beauty of what you love to be what you do.” – Rumi
- “Why settle for anything less than total life fulfilment. Start by filling yourself up with you.” – Diana Detinger
- “Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.” – Martin Yan
- “Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Jalaluddin Rumi
- “Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love – I think that’s the meaning of this human experience.” – Steve Gleason
- “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living for, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
- “Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are ultimately to be at peace with themselves. What humans can be, they must be.” – Abraham Maslow
- “Chase your passion, not your pension.” – Denis Waitley
- “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” – Kevin Kruse
- “Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back to life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
- “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
- “I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.”- Charisma Carpenter
- “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
- “The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” ―Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.” ―Mahatma Gandhi
- “What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.” – Margaret Atwood
- “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone
A Few Quotes on Loving
- “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
- “Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.” – Wayne Dyer
- “Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.” – Janosch
- “It is better to be hated for what you are now than to be loved for you are not.” – Andre Gide
- “Work like you don’t need money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” – Satchel Paige
The Meaning of Life in Quotes
- “Life is without meaning. You bring meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” – Joseph Campbell
- “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” – Les Brown
- “The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” – David Viscott
- “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.” – Viktor E. Frankl
- “The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.”- Paul Kurtz
- “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
- “Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.” – Leo O’Donovan
- “If you don’t follow your heart, you might spend the rest of your life wishing you had.” – Brigitte Nicole
- “The greatest creation of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman is to help others.” – Anne Rice
- “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
- “Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God you can live your dreams.” – Ben Carson
- “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” – Conrad Hall
- “The best thing in life make you sweaty.” – Edgar Allan Poe
- “I just wish people would realize that anything is possible if you try. Dreams are made if people try.” – Terry Fox
General Life Quotes
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
- “Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep.” – Taraji Henson
- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein
- “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” – Socrates
- “Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” – Khalil Gibran
- “People have moved beyond apathy, beyond scepticism into deep cynicism.” – Elliot Richardson
- “The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.” – Dejan Stojanovic
- “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” – Stephanie Perkins
- “I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.” – Brian McKnight
- “Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.” – Barbara Kingsolver
Motivate Yourself with These Quotes
- “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
- “The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” – Mother Teresa
- “Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.” – Benjamin Hardy
- “I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” – Michelle Obama
- “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz
- “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
- “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
And there is one more…
- “Most important thing in life … is learning how to fall.” – Jeanette Walls
There will be several moments in your life when you fall. You will fall in love with the wrong people, and you will fall into the abyss of hell where there will always remain parts of you. All you have to do is learn how to fall and, most importantly, accept the fall and turn it into a tool for grinding your personality and your path.
Remember that life is the supreme gift, and we must appreciate whatever it has to offer. Find the motivation to continue living through the darkest days because life has a deeper meaning than you think. Whenever you think about giving up, just read this list and cherish your existence.
