Quotes About Meaning

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

All communication begins with an intention, and your intention determines the quality of your life.

Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.

Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be?

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

The great doing of little things, makes the great life.

Art exists because life is not enough.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

Very few things in life matter.

Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth