They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. What most of us seek is comfort but what gives meaning is connection. The proper question is: What does it mean to you? Daniel Jeffries What is the meaning of life is not the question you should ask. The problem is that you were asking the wrong question. It’s about getting rid of everything that isn’t really you. The journey isn’t so much about becoming someone. The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections – with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds. Meaning and being did not lie somewhere behind things they lay within them, within everything. My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things.
Get busy with life’s purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue – if you care for yourself at all – and do it while you can. I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness. It’s not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression. MuthukrishnanĪs human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has – or ever will have – something inside that is unique to all time. Thinking about death, once a day, is the best way to lead a meaningful life. Michel de MontaigneĪ secret to life: Know that none of this matters, and yet… live as if every single moment does. The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose. I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. Related quotes and topics: truth, powerful, solitude The Best Meaningful Quotes I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. You can seek the comfortable or the meaningful. James Clearįor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. You can create a lot of meaning in your own life by helping someone else do something that is meaningful to them.