Bill Hicks Quotes

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going.

I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.

It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.

We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

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's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

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

My friends don't understand, whether it's belonging to a country club or playing golf, or whatever a vacation is, that should make you happy. And it's like, "No, happiness is much deeper." I think people have to struggle to find things that give them purpose, the real meaning. Why am I alive? Why did God bless me with these skills or these resources? What am I to do with them? If God just lets some person be very fortunate, let's say financially, it's kind of a funny God.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

I figured out in my thirties it was about 'what can I contribute'? And what I figured out about that is creating something from scratch, and connecting it to people.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.