Meaning Quotes

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

Or, maybe what really mattered was that game of Crazy 8s.

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.

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.

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.

Overrated is order.

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.

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.

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

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

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

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

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.

Everything did mean something.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

I only found myself when I stopped looking. . .

Stories give color to black and white information.

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

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

Remember that you are here for more than a bunch of flesh.

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.

When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.

The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.

If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

Life is about finding . . .what works best for you.

At least tell me you won? And that the scratches and dings were totally worth it." "Of course. They're always worth it, " he says with a hidden meaning that only the two of us could ever understand.

The true meaning and purpose of life is to give some meaning and purpose to your life.

...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

You can put anything into words, except your own life

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.

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.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within

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

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

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

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”.