Gregory David Roberts Quotes

What is the value of your existence?

I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.

We all need a meaning to our life.

If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do

The purpose of existence is to exist. It is too fantastic to have a meaning.

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life; one has to create it. Only if you create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there like a rock, it has to be created like a song. It is not a thing, it is significance that you bring through your consciousness.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.