Quotes About Meaning

Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

I'm not a brain surgeon, I'm not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that's a pretty important task.

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

Spirituality is when we can't explain everything in life, totally. So, we have a spiritual meaning for it; we don't know why we are here really.

Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.