Quotes About Meaning

The purpose of life is happiness. What else could it possibly be?

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!

You're the father of the person who is my life.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.

I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life.

Try to live as if there were a God

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.

Life is pointless...and that is God's greatest gift.

Your life is not about what you are doing. Yet, it is true that what you are doing is often a reflection of what your life is about.

One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be.

Truly life is wasted on the living.