Meaning Quotes

Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?

If you want to see, then begin to see how you see.

Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.It means “full of grace”.

Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, "The world will never understand.

Apology is not about saying I'm sorry, but it is about the meaning you put behind the apology and admitting that you are the wrong part.

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until you're sixty-five.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within

The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

Life truly is what you make it. The purpose and meaning of life is the purpose and meaning that you give it.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

Life has the meaning we give it, no more, no less.

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that... But it's what I meant.

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.

In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good.

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

Stories give color to black and white information.

I only found myself when I stopped looking. . .

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things…

I don't know what you mean, but I know that you mean it.(attrib: 'Edward', Appendix 2)

Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it.

It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

Everyday has its own meaning. Find the reason of your survival of the day and accomplish it.

One makes his own meanings as the counterfeiter prints his own money: both know full well that the value of either rests solely in the gullibility of its recipient...

Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life.

Everything did mean something.

He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.

Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past.

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential as human beings by spending our lives serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible and visible only to the spirit.

Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God.

Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.

[Your] search for meaning in the world... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place.

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.

That's the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.

who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

Everything we do and think has consequences and everything is connected by this web and has a meaning. When we touch the web on one side of the world, it ripples through it to the other - and so on.

The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.

Overrated is order.

We’re all the same. We all have the means to save ourselves and carry ourselves home.