Quotes About Meaning

I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.

Without struggles, success would be meaningless.

Success should be an ambition within the parameters of Purpose.

Success is living your essence.

The first purpose of your life is to find the purpose of your life.

Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".

Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life.

Think of your day as a blank canvas, and everything you say, your art upon it. Then join your loved ones and friends, and create lasting beauty together, worthy of your inner Rembrandt.

The dead worry the living because their silence reminds us how little the great comedies and tragedies in our lives matter and how little the universe would care if we'd never lived at all." -- Nara

'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.

A human life is a story told by God.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.