Quotes About Meaning

Your heart influences your art.

Each day of your existence ready's itself for your impact

Life is for a specific mission. Find your role and fulfill it.

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.

life is hard to explain, difficult to understand but you still need life.

Life is the gift of being able to do something, so use it

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

Where words fail, music speaks.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.