Quotes About Meaning

This is what meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words, but passwords, and as soon they're spoken you can go

If there is cheesy packaging around a universal truth, does that make the universal truth inside any less valid?

What you are to me has no ending, unless you can understand what forever and infinity really mean.

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

"Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends."

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

True happiness…not not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

Everything happens for a reason.

Life goes on. What nonsense, I though, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

Long distance friendships stay strong only when memorable moments were made when you were close. There is no meaning in friendship if you don't have memories of spending time together.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."

As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.

Love is just a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning

"When I get to the end of my life, and I ask one final 'What have I done?' Let my answer be: 'I have done love.' "

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Actions speak louder than words. And sometimes inaction speaks louder than both of them.