Eleanor Porter Quotes

You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive.

A good life is a main argument.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.

Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

But a living is not a life.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

The meaning of life is life.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.

It is just living life intentionally - that is what I want instead of just existing.

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?