Quotes About Meaning

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.

Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

There is more to life than surviving.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.

We still did not answer the questions that are important to us

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.