Quotes About Meaning

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.

Strange how few After all's said and done, the things that are Of moment.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand.

Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.

To do is to be.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live.

To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan, where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.

The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.

Life's objective is life itself.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

I am afraid I shall not find Him, but I shall still look for Him. If He exists, He may be appreciative of my efforts.