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Quotes About Meaning

Being an artist is celebrating life.
~ Henry Moore
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
~ Meher Baba
There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes.
~ Michael Jackson
'Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is' is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.
~ Muriel Barbery
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
~ Norman Mailer
If God gives you a dream, and the dream comes to life and God shows up in it, and then the dream dies, it may be that God wants to see what is more important to you - the dream or him.
~ Phil Vischer
Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.
~ R. S. Thomas
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.
~ Rick Warren
Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.
~ Rick Warren
If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning.
~ Alfred Delp
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.
~ Burl Ives
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
~ C. S. Lewis
Before my death I hope to obtain my life.
~ Charles Bukowski
Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.
~ Chip Conley
We got to push to give, and one life to live.
~ Coolio
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for
~ David Starr Jordan
Oh my god what am I doing with my life?
~ El-P
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
~ Joseph Campbell
Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.
~ Kurt Hanks