Quotes About Meaning

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

... life falls into place only with God.

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

Live life as if it were created just for you.

I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift.

Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.

If you're not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn't count.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

It's not 'What do I want to do?', it's 'What kind of life do I want to have?'

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

I think that all things are spirit and are derived from spirit. When you look at life from that perspective, it takes on a whole new meaning.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.