True Meaning Of Life Quotes

True Meaning Of Life Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche, Dalai Lama, James Oppenheim, Jason Peter, Henry David Thoreau, Richard Bach and many others.

Normally we do not like to think about death. We would

Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now… and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
Sogyal Rinpoche
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
Dalai Lama
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
Nebraskans know the true meaning of life… work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.
Jason Peter
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
Richard Bach
Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.
Young-Ha Kim
If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility
Dalai Lama
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
What is art? (…) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
Sogyal Rinpoche
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.
Frederick Buechner
We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.
Dalai Lama