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Quotes About Meaning

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
~ Clarice Lispector
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
~ Edvard Munch
Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.
~ Elliot W. Eisner
You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place.
~ Paul Allen
God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
~ J. I. Packer
Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually
~ Lauryn Hill
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.
~ Robert McKee
It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.
~ Francois Jacob
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
~ Alfred Korzybski
Philippians 1:21 is very special to me because it helps to keep my life centered.
~ Allyson Felix
In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.
~ Giorgio Agamben
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
~ Jack Kornfield
If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.
~ Jackie Kennedy
Life is more important than architecture.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Songs are life in 80 words or less.
~ Neil Diamond
We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
What is life for? Life is for you.
~ Abraham Maslow
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
~ Franz Marc
Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
~ George Eliot