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Quotes About Meaning

Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.
~ Franny Billingsley, Chime
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
~ Joseph Brodsky
If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.
~ Dan Wells, Ruins
It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
~ Jean Toomer, Cane
With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
~ Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
~ Lawrence Clark Powell
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.
~ Kami Garcia
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
~ Annie Lennox
Life is eternal and it's worth living. What we do in this life is not futile. Death is not the end. Our practice in this life will assist us in our next life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.
~ James Carroll
There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.
~ Joel Garreau
What is the meaning of life? Life has the meaning that you give it.
~ Steve Redhead
My life carries its own meaning in itself.
~ Albert Schweitzer
In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.
~ Alice Foote MacDougall
Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life
~ Amanda Hocking
There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
~ Ann Richards
Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?
~ Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
~ Anthony de Mello
Life is only worth-while through the eyes of a believer.
~ Ashley Smith