Quotes About Meaning

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

We need a witness to our lives. There are a billion people on the planet…. I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything—the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things—all of it, all the time, every day. You're saying, 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go unwitnessed because I will be your witness.

Huset der oppe, sa jeg og pekte – er dødens hus, Arnardo.

Have you found out the meaning of your life? Yes. I've finally figured it out. It's to find something more important to me than my own life. Finding something more important to us than our own lives is why we are all born. We're all given with one life inside us. And God wants us to use that life to set out on lifelong journey to find something that is more important to us. You too are someone more important to me than my own life.

Have you found out the meaning of your life?' 'Yes. I've finally figured it out. It's to find something more important to me than my own life. Finding something more important to us than our own lives is why we are all born. We're all given with one life inside us. And God wants us to use that life to set out on lifelong journey to find something that is more important to us than ourselves

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Happiness consists in the consciousness of a life in which the highest Virtue is actively manifested.

All action presupposes an end.

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

In the wider world, we keep hectically busy and fill every free moment of our day with some form of diversion—work, computers, television, movies, radio, magazines, newspapers, sports, alcohol, drugs, parties. Perhaps we distract ourselves because looking at our lives confronts us with our lack of meaning, our unhappiness, and our loneliness—and with the difficulty, the fragility, and the unbelievable brevity of life.

What I found in my search for meaning was this: It's our responsibility to create our life's work in something we are passionate about because that is the most effective way we can create happiness in our life. A life's work in "that something" is the best path to challenge us and it's the most effective way to serve others.

You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

The price of poetry is life.

But the exponents of the theory "art for art's sake" maintain that any reference to actualities beyond the work of art must irretrievably destroy its aesthetic illusion. That may be correct, and yet this aesthetic illusion is not all, to produce it is not the exclusive or the most important aim of the artistic endeavor.

If we do not know or even want to know the aims that the artist was pursuing through his work – his aim to inform, to convince, to influence people – then we do not get much farther in understanding his art than the ignorant spectator who judges a football game simply by the beauty of the players' movement.

In interpreting a work of art, we draw upon our own aims and endeavors, inform it with a meaning that has its origin in our own ways of life and thought. In a word, any art that really affects us becomes to that extent modern art.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

the failure of communication is more often existential than merely lingual. Is there anything more miraculous than the unsimple event of words becoming