Meaning

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.
-Carl Jung

What do you want a meaning for?
Life is a desire, not a meaning.
-Charlie Chaplin

Life itself is so beautiful
that to ask the question of the meaning of life
is simply nonsense.
-Mohan Chanda Jain, "Osho"

Life has meaning
only if ones barters it day by day
for something other than itself.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life has to be given a meaning
because of the obvious fact
that it has no meaning.
-Henry Miller

Life has no meaning a priori...
It is up to you to give it a meaning,
and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Not one thing in the universe
has a single inherent meaning.
-Anthony Paul Moo-Young, "Mooji"

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

Meaning is not found in one thing or another
but in the being that connects them.
-Ellen Lozenzi-Prince

All meaning is found in the individual,
and in each individual this meaning is considered unique.
-Joseph Campbell

The world is nothing in itself.

Your mind must give it meaning.

-A Course in Miracles

Of what meaning is the world without mind?
The question cannot exist.
-Edwin H. Land

Life has no meaning.
Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.
It is a waste to be asking the question
when you are the answer.
-Joseph Campbell

Nothing in life has any meaning 

except the meaning we give it.

-Tony Robbins

Life is without meaning.
You bring meaning to it.
The meaning of life
is whatever you ascribe to it.
Being alive is the meaning.
-Joseph Campbell

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
-Joseph Campbell

It is not so much the meaning of life that we seek,

but our aliveness.

When we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

-Anodea Judith

It is the experience of living that is important,

not searching for meaning.

We bring meaning by how we love the world.

-Bernie Siegel

There is only one meaning of life:
the act of living itself.
-Erich Fromm

Life's meaning is understood
when we stop imposing our own meaning on it.
-Vernon Howard

A major part of the meaning of life
is contained in the very discovering of it.
-Ira Progoff

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning.

-Erich Fromm

Every man must look to himself
to teach him the meaning of life.
It is not something to be discovered;
it is something moulded.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no meaning to life
except the meaning man gives his life
by the unfolding of his powers.
-Erich Fromm

The question is not to know
what is the meaning of life,
but what meaning I can give to my life.
-Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama

The meaning of life becomes very simple
when a person asks himself,
"What am I to do?"
-Leo Tolstoy

To give meaning to life,
one must have a purpose larger than self.
-William J. Durant

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
-Charles Henry Pankhurst

Meaning is found in relationship.
-Bruce Lee

Meaning lies in opposition.
-David K Reynolds

What is the meaning of life?
To be happy and useful.
-Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama

You will only find the meaning of life
if you put yourself at the service of a sublime ideal.
-Omraam Mikahel Aivanhov

To return to the root
is to find the meaning.
-Seng-Ts'an

The meaning in life
is in the flavor we find in things.
and it is the spirit, yes, the spirit within us
that gives them this flavor.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

The whole meaning of life is evolution,
the transformation of matter.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

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From the view of consciousness itself,
one might say that the world is really amorphous,
and that all meaning is a derivation
of projected value, perceptual interpretation and mentation.
-David R. Hawkins

Meaning emerges from context and connectedness.

Without context, nothing makes sense.

-Marilyn Ferguson

Meaning is merely taking external context 

and fitting it in without internal symbol systems.

-Anodea Judith

where will the meanings be
when the words are forgotten
-W. S. Merwin

The deeper experience of an absence of meaning -
in other words, of absurdity,
the more energetically meaning is sought.
-Vaclav Havel

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness
is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
-Paul Tillich

We had the experience but missed the meaning,

and approach to the meaning restores to the experience

in a different form.

-T. S. Eliot

The meanings that is acquired through direct experience 

are much more powerful 

than meanings acquired through conceptual thought.

-Eugene Gendlin

It could mean something.
It could mean everything.
-Mary Oliver

There can suddenly be opened within the heart or the mind
a realm of experience that is not the external world...
and we are then bathed in the light of Meaning.
-Maurice Nicoll