Quotes About Meaning

Probably some of the most miserable years of my life were grappling with some definition of what success was.

I feel like a lot of people have a hard time finding what they do, or they have a job or career and not a passion. That's miserable for me. Just find your purpose; understand that you have one life to live.

You are going to lead a miserable life if you only do it for the money. You are never going to be happy.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.

This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.

All of us have a mission here on Earth.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

One doesn't necessarily have a mission.

That's my mission: to make you feel something.

Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

My quenelle was very misunderstood.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level, there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to perform a particular function.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more meaning and dialogue to hip hop.

How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?

It's not always about the money.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.