Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

The purpose of life is to live it.

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

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

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

The meaning of life is life.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

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

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

I'm curious about life, period.

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

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.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.