Alice Walker Quotes

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

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

Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied. And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon." Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?" The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before. And suddenly it occured to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

I guess I was just always one of those guys who asked those fundamental questions: 'Who am I? What's this for? Why? What does this mean? Is this real?' All these pretty basic questions. I like making movies about people who are self-conscious in that way, and are trying to feel their way through the world.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

The important thing is, that I guess I don't spend any time thinking about what I am or what we do means. I spend my time doing it.

In the end, it's about what you want to be, not what you want to have.

The purpose of life is life.

We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.