David Foster Quotes

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

I choose to live, not just exist.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

Most people appear to live an unexamined life, cruising through the years without much reflection about what it means, and/or taking what life hands them and believing it's all predestined.

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.