“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso

“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

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” – Marcus Aurelius¹

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” – Alan Watts

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.” – Toni Morrison

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” – Dalai Lama

“The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.” – Dalai Lama

“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.” – Viktor E. Frankl

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

“It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.” – Tony Robbins

“What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.” – Aristotle

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” – Leo Tolstoy

“The very meaningless of life forces man to create his own meaning.” – Stanley Kubrick

“Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible.” – Dalai Lama

“To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.” – Bill Watterson

“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” – Hermann Hesse

“You can seek the comfortable or the meaningful. Choose wisely.” – Maxime Lagacé

“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 is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.” – James Clear

“What most of us seek is comfort but what gives meaning is connection.” – Maxime Lagacé

“The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson

I hope these quotes inspire you to reflect on the meaning of life!