Quotes About Meaning

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it's … makin' ART.

It's not Art. And Art is not Design.

Be absorbed in what your customer is saying; be inspired by what your customer is meaning.

Who am I to say that small joys are less valuable than a passion which shatters your life?

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For sorrow to which one gives voice is worth nothing if it does not touch the heart.

She might do what the mortals did, and strain to convince herself that the death of her Boy and the loss of her husband had happened for some reason, that some restitution would be made for her, that she would be paid for her suffering with a truer and more tolerable understanding of the world, but she didn't think she had the muscles for it.

We're strange creatures, we humans. At one level, we just want to eat, drink, play, and acquire more stuff. But life on the hedonic treadmill is ultimately dissatisfying. A beautiful remedy is to hop off it and instead begin pursuing an idea that's bigger than you are.

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose.

Life should be about purpose and meaning and cause and fulfilling our personal, God-given destinies.

Our greatest fear should not be that we won't succeed, but rather that we will succeed at something that doesn't matter.

To succeed without meaning is not to succeed at all.

Hunger, it should be noted, is different from ambition. Where ambition is largely about self-aggrandizement, hunger is more about service and significance.

We should strive to matter as much as we possibly can and guard ourselves against the inevitable temptations that would cheapen our accomplishments.

We're compensated metaphysically with the absolute freedom to define and pursue whatever it is we believe will make our lives worthwhile- a dubious birthright that imparts a wearisome burden of its own. Rather like choosing one all-important meal from an infinite menu.

This was always my trouble when I was learning to speak your language. Every word can defend itself. Just when you go to grab it, it can split into two separate meanings so the understanding closes on empty air. I admire you people. You are like sorcerers and you have made your language as safe as your money.

He felt good for once, he really did. Maybe the deal was that life had to break your body down before you could see it. Maybe there wasn't any other racket in town except this one that brought you to your nadir and challenged you to build yourself back up from it, then showed you that what you'd done at least meant something to someone.

Who knows which takes more courage—to die in battle, or to live in vain? It cuts all of us in two, I suppose." Hamilton

You don't know anything,' she said. 'If you knew one thing about this life you would not think it was so funny.' Yvette put her hands on her hips. She shook her head slowly. 'Darlin,' she said. 'Life did take its gift back from yu and me in de diffren order, dat's all. Truth to tell, funny is all me got lef wid. An yu, darlin, all yu got lef is paperwork.

I was hoping my life might make more sense from a great height.

There are no goats. That is why you have all these beautiful flowers." "There were goats, in your village?" "Yes, and they ate all the flowers." "I'm sorry." "Do not be sorry. We ate all the goats.