Purpose and Meaning of Life

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why .

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

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.

Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - "What is the meaning of the void?" The answer was perfect silence, so I knew.

Shape clay into a vessel ; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room ; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.

We should not desire the impossible.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.