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Quotes About Meaning

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.
~ Isamu Noguchi
How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
~ Abdullah ibn Mubarak
This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
~ Muhammad Ali
Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
~ Bob Dylan
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
~ Sigmund Freud
Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
~ Khalil Gibran
I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
~ Akiane Kramarik
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
~ John Buchan
Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.
~ Charlton Heston
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.
~ Bill Watterson
We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.
~ John G. Lake
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
~ William Stafford
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.
~ Rumi
Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
~ Bayard Taylor
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
~ Shinichi Suzuki
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
~ Mario Benedetti
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
~ Jack Kerouac
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
~ Errol Flynn
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.
~ Henry Ford
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?
~ C. S. Lewis