Quotes About Meaning

Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.

But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.

She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.