“Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”

“Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“Diversions come and go. Pleasure never lasts. Variety loses its meaning. But you will always be able to choose what you are willing to sacrifice, what you are willing to give up.”

Mark Manson book Everything Is Fucked

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor

“Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

“Apologies mean nothing if you don't mean it.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“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.

Love is a friendship set to music.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious & aware enough to choose what you pay attention to & to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

“Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to
give up all the other important things.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida