Quotes About Meaning

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Religion will always have a future because it is an expression of the profound search for the meaning of life and a consequence of introspection and encounters with Him. As long as life continues to be a mystery and man wonders who created the natural order—while those questions, which I believe will be eternal, persist— the concept of religion will endure as a manifestation of the urgent calling to understand who we are.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

Success is not money! Success is you are fully loving what you are doing. That only is success!

I am forced to render some order to the events of my life, to say it began here, and then because of this, that happened, and this is how the end connects to the beginning, and so here I am.

You can't walk across a lake just because you change its name to "land." Labels matter.

Another day in paradise" was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understood what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

when it's all done, when life is almost over, what do you want to remember?

Medicine is a demanding mistress, yet she is faithful, generous, and true, She gives me the privilege of seeing patients and of teaching students at the bedside, and thereby she gives meaning to everything I do.

she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled. She

The word "lazaretto" used to refer to a quarantine station where infectious patients could be isolated, but over time it came to mean a leprosy hospital.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

No one wants to be remembered for their death, or rather, I don't. So why do I remember hers and remember hers? I

You can't sum it up, my mother says as we are driving and the electronic voice repeats, Turn Left onto Wildwood Canyon Road, so I turn left, happy for the mundane instructions. Let us robot at once. Tell me where to go. Tell me how to get there. She means a life, of course. You cannot sum it up.