Meaning Quotes

Wait a minute, I'm thinking, was this another one of those conversations where what is meant and what is being said are not the same thing?

Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

You were almost like a haiku: said so little, but meant so much.

But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.

Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.

Work is easy when it’s full of meaning and shared with others.

Man’s desire is to know the mind of God.

...WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY...that counts?...that carries meaning?...that made the day worthwhile?...what will you do tomorrow?

Ignorance is sacred and im an atheist.

He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning.

God made you for a reason and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more...

Write as if life has no meanings without writing.

Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow.

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

In modern society the term "no" have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for "Negotiations Open".

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.

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.

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 only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification.

When someone asks me what a song is about, it’s like, I feel like I might ruin it if you ask me that. I feel like I did my best to explain the song in the song on its own terms as a song.

All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

Exercising a spiritual gift without showing true love is meaningless.

Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.

As humans we need each other to give meaning to the word happy!

If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.

MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? … Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that?

What are humans meant to do

Life is a thick dictionary, where you can find the meaning of anything.

I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, “Are you at peace with yourself?” and he answered, “No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

Life is like this roller coaster you can’t wait to be tall enough and old enough to get on. But when you get on it you realize you’re afraid of roller coasters.

When we are courageous enough to begin exploring the ‘Why’s” and the ‘Who’s' of life, the ‘How’s’ and ‘What’s’ of life start to come into focus as well. "

The spiritual journey is an adventure of exploration that gradually starts to open up before us when we are ready to begin asking the questions, “Who am I? and “Who are you?

Right person, wrong timing doesn’t mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

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.

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

To find meaning in our lives we need consistent exposure to kids, elders and animals... cuz kids and animals aren't looking for it, and elders are the closest to finding it.

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

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

[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.

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