Quotes About Meaning

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

I can only strive for what is important

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open.

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.