Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

Just because you are alive does not mean you have to give life.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.