Gayle Forman Quotes

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

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

The meaning of life is life.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

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

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

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

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

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

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

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.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

If you live life, then you become what are.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

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

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.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.