Quotes About Meaning

Success is not the ultimate purpose of life, but happiness is.

The purpose of life is not success, but happiness.

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.

There is no science without spirituality; spirituality has no meaning without science.

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

Here's what the moment of inspiration did. It assembled these cultural meanings in this particular package for this particular group at this particular cultural moment.

Generations crying out for meaning in their life, for something to believe in beyond themselves, and afraid or unable to embrace faith. Tragedy is all around us.

What He was commanding them was to symbolically take His life, His spirit, into themselves and make Him part of who they were.

When one contemplated Portia, when one contemplated Sharon, when one contemplated one's own apparently pointless, utterly trivial being, the questions hung all around one, as urgent as knives at the throat. But the instant one tried to grasp one of them and turn it to one's own purpose and pierce through the murk, it became blunt and useless as a piece of cardboard.

In Ghana, the pressing issues were economic, questions related to development and how it worked out in a political arena where all the players were black. (As I write "black" again, I need to acknowledge how meaningless the American term is in a West African context where so very much besides race matters—every day and fundamentally.)

But then, I'm not your ordinary dog, since an ordinary dog wouldn't be writing this book, would he?)

It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to live.

I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness. In Spanish it is tristeza, which is heavier than French sadness, more of a groan than a whisper.

The Poet wipes her eyes on the corner of my tablecloth. 'Perhaps the modern tragedy, Lapinski, is that we weep and do not know what we are weeping for. This is quite different from catharsis.' She suddenly throws back her head and roars with laughter; her gold teeth rattle

The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him. She has stitched it together like the most beautiful cloak. Her love has sewn it together and they can wrap it around themselves and be safe from the world. Nobody can reach them.

You will find that thing that makes you unafraid to die. That important thing that makes your life of value.

Everything we say to each other echoes with meanings left over from our past experience— both our history talking to the person before us at this moment and our history talking to others. This is especially true in the family— and our history of family talk is like a prism through which all other conversations (and relationships) are refracted.

You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. Jessica - Age 8

Happiness is a message not a look.

for journalists words are simply tokens to be arranged and rearranged indifferently. But for an artist there can be only one ideal order.

someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are alive.

We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken.

To some people who said they believed, religion was a word; to others, it defined who they were.

If we pay great attention to the meaning of each moment of our unique life, the meaning of life in general will attend to itself.