Quotes About Meaning

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

The beauty of having goals in life is that it drives you and when that is lost you lose a lot of meaning in life.

I don't know what the point of life is, but I'm certain that five gold medals is not it.

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

I believe there is meaning in life. I believe there is good and evil.

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it.

Anything can be art but very little is good art.

A good book is a good book. End of story.

I don't think a film that has no effect on people or society is a good film.

They have some good food in Sarasota.

Good music tells a story that people relate to.

I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.

Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.

I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.

A good film is always a good film and a good story is always a good story.

If we want to share the message of the composers, to give good things back to humanity, we have to dig deep while we can.

My philosophy about life is that we may not be in it for a long time, but we're in it for a good time.

Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

To live is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's hunger meet.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.