Quotes About Meaning

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.