Quotes About Meaning

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn't your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling?

I never smile unless I mean it.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

I feel blessed. So many men and women search and search but never find their passion, their calling, their sense of mission that would ignite their hearts and fill their lives with meaning and joy.

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.

Most women are motivated so I act accordingly But this is so refreshing that it means a little more to me

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

"Women," he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.

All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.