63 Best Meaning Quotes

Babies are the punctuation marks in the story of life.

A challenged life is worth living. - Bessie Coleman

A firefighter's legacy is measured in lives touched, not years lived.

Numbers fade, but what you do with them never does. – Roberto Clemente

This month: Leave fingerprints, not footprints.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor Frankl

A life not lived for others is not a life. - Mother Teresa

All my life needed was a sense of some kind of direction, a sense of some kind of purpose. – Travis Bickle

Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. – The Narrator

What difference does it make? It's all a big joke. Everything is everything. – Christopher Moltisanti

I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent. – Don Draper

Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV. – Morty

The world is a story. You have to choose which story you want to be in. – Rabbi

The stakes are real in this place, William. This is the only game in town that means anything. – The Man in Black

The key to the whole game… is finding the door. – The Man in Black

I’m not going to tell you that everything is going to be okay, because I don’t know if that’s true. What I will tell you is that you are here, and it’s no accident. – Matt Jamison

Maybe you’re right. Maybe there are no miracles. But if you can’t believe in miracles, what’s left? – Matt Jamison

Sometimes, you have to tell yourself a story to survive. – Kevin Garvey Sr.

There is no such thing as a coincidence in this world. There is only hitsuzen. – Okuru

The bonds we form with others are what give our lives meaning. – Fuu

This journey... it wasn't so bad after all. – Fuu

It's not the length of life that matters, it's the depth. – Meruem

You can enjoy your life, even if it's meaningless. – Panda

In the end, I guess I ended up loving the pursuit most of all. – Chiyoko Fujiwara

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life.

But now, since his marriage, when he had begun to confine himself to living for himself, though he experienced no joy at all at the thought of the work he was doing, he felt with complete certainty that his work was necessary.

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. – Ahab

For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again.

What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me...?

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive. – Montag

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. – The Elder Zosima

For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. – The Elder Zosima

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. – The Duchess

Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good looking? – Derek Zoolander

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? – Coraline Jones

It's not just a symbol. A man who doesn't care about the world. – Bruce Wayne

The search for the Grail is the search for the divine in all of us. – Henry Jones Sr.

What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? – Phil Connors

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

The sacred is in the ordinary... it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard. – Abraham Maslow

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard. – Abraham Maslow

We may define therapy as a search for value. – Abraham Maslow

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love. – Abraham Maslow

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. – Oprah Winfrey