Quotes About Meaning

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

When we allow our conscience to be our guide, then our purpose in life will be fullfilled.

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

The secret of life is in art.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Without music, life would be an error.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.