Quotes About Meaning

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Man is that he might have joy.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.

Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty 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.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word.

Death is not only a passing on but a time for everyone else to truthfully reflect on one's life.

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

I must always try to do better because perfectionism, and the need to always have new goals and achieve them, is a state of mind that brings profound meaning to life.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want my money back.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.