Meaning Quotes
All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.
I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.
Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.
The significance of life is living.
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.
The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.
Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.
Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.