The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

Despair is suffering without meaning.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

It is being said of a certain poet that though he tortures the English language, he has never yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal his meaning.

My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.

Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Always keep in your mind that ambition is something that always puts you in or makes you end up in the meanest offices no matter whether you wish to go there by yourself or not.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

The Bishop was aghast, and my father chuckled. “Yes, pig-ethics,” Ernest went on remorselessly. “That is the meaning of the capitalist system. And that is what your church is standing for, what you are preaching for every time you get up in the pulpit. Pig-ethics! There is no other name for it.” Bishop.

This is the first time I have heard ‘ethics’ in the mouth of a man. You and I are the only men on this ship that know its meaning. At one time in my life, I dreamed that I might someday talk with men who used such language, that I might lift myself out of the place in life in which I had been born, and hold conversation and mingle with men who talked about just such things as ethics.

He had learned to get along without her. Her meaning was forgotten. There was no place for her in his scheme of things, as there was no place for him in hers.

But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I’ve given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn’t waste time or paper on a being you didn’t like. But I think I’ve loved you since we met at your mother’s funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry – until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it’s good policy.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated

My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don’t think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people’s rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.

There’s no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

I don’t follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it’s like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won’t hear me say, ‘What’s up, dude’ or anything like that just for the heck of it.

I don’t like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.

Words have the power to heal, to transform, to connect us to one another

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Rolf Harris is a hard man to hate, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and “being present” in full awareness.

“And what is love, in the end?” Alabaster said. “Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else’s journey through life?”

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

A well-meaning team of people can sometimes make horrible decisions that no single individual would make. Groupthink, and an unwillingness to disagree with the bosses, was too often a problem at NASA… None of us is as dumb as all of us.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

One must love life before loving its meaning … yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire.

With a strong heart and a good mind, you can do it.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

The expression similia similes is a Latin phrase and means that an imaginary disease can best be cured by an imaginary remedy.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don’t give up. Remember, it’s always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.

Silence is a continuation of dispute by other means.

Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what’s left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I don’t know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars, and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Trees, in particular, were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Don’t matter if you f*ck with me, I get money regardless.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television. I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Everything that I’ve gotten out of life was obtained through dedication and a tremendous desire to achieve my goals…a great desire for victory, meaning victory in life, not as a driver

Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

Meow” means “woof” in cat.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The true meaning of courage is to be afraid – and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, take the leap anyway.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else’s dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.

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

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

The world is like an anesthetic… people are not going beyond the superficial to the meaning of life — they don’t even ask that question because they’re living in a world of not feeling.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man’s own misconduct aggravates their bitterness

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information.

What does dating mean?

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

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. It was she.

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It’s the artist’s job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they’re very intertwined.

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

I love my ink. They all have a meaning. I’m very strong in my faith, so I wanted to have some religious images. I’ve got Pieta, a Michelangelo sculpture of Mary holding Jesus after he came off the cross, on my shoulder. A sacred heart on my arm. Musical notes because I love music. The compass on my chest is there because church is my compass.