Quotes About Meaning

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well

That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.

Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

Once you begin the journey toward a life of purpose, you enter the realm of real magic.

If you have life, you have purpose.

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.