Quotes About Meaning

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.

Music is what I care about. Not material things.

If I change people's lives, that's all that matters to me.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

I can't make nobody believe in God. I can't tell you. But you got to experience it for yourself. When you find the true meaning of a spiritual gift, of what God give you? Nothing on this planet can give you that much joy.

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

That's the meaning of 'The Revenant': It's a return from death.

The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.

I don't think I even understand the full meaning of athletics.

I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

My life is meaningful.

Everything I do is meaningful.

Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.