Quotes About Meaning

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.

There is a reason for everything. You might not be able to figure it out, and time might have made us all forget it, but the reason is there all the same.

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

Anything that doesn't lead us to that - to better know and serve God - is a waste of time.

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?