Life Quotes

"When a person can't find a deep reason for existence, he dies."

"An aimless life is an empty life."

"Every person must decide for themselves what their life means."

"Those who do not find reasons to live will not continue living."

"The search for meaning is not a luxury but a necessity of the human soul."

"To live is to have meaning; to have meaning is to live fully."

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."

"To live without authenticity is to live only half alive."

"We speak to ourselves the way we were spoken to as children."

"Being human is the most important thing."

"I have discovered that most of the people in our culture are on a kind of sub-level of living."

"It is as if we are being swept along a river of our own making."

"Moral development is a lifelong process, not a destination we reach and remain at."

"Play is not the opposite of work; it is work engaged in for its own sake."

"Children are not preparing for life; they are living life now."

"The child's play is not frivolous; it is the serious business of development."

"Life is what we make of it through our choices and actions."

"Life teaches us through both joy and suffering."

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."

"Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, but a quest for meaning."

"What matters is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life."

"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."

"Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under the most constrained circumstances, decide what his life is to have been."

"There is nothing in the world that would so effectively help one to survive, even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that his life has a meaning."

"Men's search for meaning is the greatest force motivating human life."

"The goal of life is not to attain pleasure but to discover purpose."

"A life without meaning is a life without purpose, and vice versa."

"The social influences which rule the individual are impressively strong and often controlling, but the character and the quality of these forces are largely determined by the characteristics of the individuals who compose the social group."

"The individual is never truly isolated from social influence, nor fully determined by it."

"The group offers comfort but at the cost of authenticity."