Quotes About Meaning

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

Life is all about the spirit.

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.

Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

I'd rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I'm born to do that. Could I enter into the political realm and dive into that? Sure, but I don't think I would want to do that.

I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual.

The world is starved for spiritual food.

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

What I do is very spiritual to me. I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

If God exists, then we are spiritual beings, and we have souls, and we are noble inherently.

I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.

I'm a spiritual person. I do believe in a higher power. I believe God placed me on this planet to be a beneficial presence.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.

For me, it is especially important to maintain my interior life. My spirituality, my connectedness. That is the way I think. That is the way I deal with life and tough moments. I keep in touch with something bigger than me. And I connect with people who have an interior life - a connection with something bigger than them.

I do have a sense of spirituality.