Quotes About Meaning

Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.

Life is too short to waste doing things we don't have to do.

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled.

Religion needs spirituality. Spirituality does not need religion.

Nothing made sense, except for how much you loved someone.

being of service and making a difference in the lives of others suddenly become what you most want to do.

Life is like a nighttime dream. You create it for a reason—lessons and adventure—and it has meaning, order, and purpose, yet you forget that you're creating it because only by (fleetingly) believing it's real can you learn its lessons and secrets. All is well. And once the dream is over, it'll make perfect sense.

Please don't confuse random with spontaneous. Spontaneous rocks. It emerges from a field of probabilities that you control, maintaining choice and meaning. It involves instinct and urge, hunches and feelings, imagination and belief. Random implies the opposite. Empty and pointless. Maybe or maybe not. Chance and luck.

I used to think I had all the time in the world to do everything I wanted. But what's the use of having all the time in the world if you're always wasting it on things that don't mean a thing?

At their essence, sports lend themselves to the most good-natured debate you will ever encounter, because there is nothing in the world better than investing everything in something that means absolutely nothing

How would our lives change if we knew what to listen for? What effect would it have if we learned how to listen for his voice in the midst of our dailiness, our everyday work and play? According to the witness of Scripture, God does have a call on our lives, a purpose, a plan, a message, and he does care about our moment-by-moment existence. This is an incredibly exciting prospect! And potentially a frightening one as well.

He once said that just bec ause you can go on at length doesn't mean that you have something to say, it doesn't mean you have a story to tell; just because you've been unlucky or short-changed or fucked over or fallen heavily on the thorns of life - that's no justification

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

Work is where we form a sense of identity. It is how we leverage the skills and experience we have gained over the years, and where we can see the results of our efforts. You don't have to be a champion skier, the CEO of a global corporation, or a rock star for your labors to have personal significance. You just have to connect with your work in a way that provides meaning and a sense of overall purpose.

Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it." Stephen Hawking

a broken toy an orphan would likely toss aside meant more than all the expensive gifts in the world.

Working is living to me.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

The English and German words are almost identical: "tact" and "takt." The cultural definitions, however, are about as similar as if they were "goose down" and "blitzkrieg.

Like parodies of themselves, theological notions are reflected in the triviality of our lives.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?