Quotes About Meaning

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Typography exists to honor content.

The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.

If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.

Tell me what's the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn't know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

I just hope to make a difference.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?