Quotes About Meaning

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

I can't cuss and tell jokes the rest of my life. I gotta say something meaningful. I gotta give something back to a Creator who has given so much to me.

Life would split apart without letters.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life.

LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.

Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.

Life's like that. As we grow and change, some things we've experience before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.