"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
– Friedrich Nietzsche
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."
– Corrie ten Boom
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
– William James
"What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count."
– Albert Einstein
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."
– Carl Jung
"You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you."
– George Alexiou
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are."
– Carl Jung
"The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning."
– Joseph Campbell
"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."
– Corrie ten Boom
"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
"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
"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
"We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark."
– Whoopi Goldberg
"For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment."
– Victor E. Frankl
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another."
– Thomas Merton
"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
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.."
– Robert Louis Stevenson
"The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself."
– W. Somerset Maugham
"Life is like a poetry, without meaning or purpose – it’s useless."
– Jawwad Zafar