Quotes About Meaning

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

Regardless of what we go through in life, there is always purpose wrapped within the pain.

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.

The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.