Quotes About Meaning

What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doing all along?

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?" [Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. "That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, Can you live without her?

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

I wonder if you've got a minute. I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

But what if-- I realize that I don't want him to disappear. I may not fully believe he's real; I may not understand why I can hear him speaking to me--but I sort of like it. I like knowing that of all the people in the world, I'm the only one listening to what he has to say. It makes me feel like we've been destined for each other.

If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?

Employment deprives you of purpose

Work for purpose, be for others.

Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain

Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

Think! What will you get by doing what you are doing? If the answer is Nothing, then why do it?

What matters in life is what you care about and what you will continue to make effort towards caring about it.

Dreaming isn't as simple as it seems. On the contrary, it can be quite dangerous. When we dream, we put powerful engines in motion and can no longer hide the true meaning of our life from ourselves. When we dream, we also make a choice of what price to pay.

When we have found all the meanings and lost all the mysteries, we will be alone, on an empty shore.