Quotes About Meaning

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.