Quotes About Meaning

Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

A coherent life is one lived in such a way that you can clearly connect the dots between three things: 1. Who you are 2. What you believe 3. What you are doing.

Deep down, our single greatest fear is to live a life of insignificance, to come to the end of our life and feel like we never really did anything that mattered. That is our greatest fear.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories are all we got!

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves Wondering if we had spent our living days well I can't believe that we would lie in our graves Dreaming of things that we might have been

You probably don't want to change the meaning of true halfway through your program (except perhaps if you're a politician).

Branding adds spirit and a soul to what would otherwise be a robotic, automated, generic price-value proposition. If branding is ultimately about the creation of human meaning, it follows logically that it is the humans who must ultimately provide it.

Active, living speech is just such a gesture, a vocal gesticulation wherein the meaning is inseparable from the sound, the shape, and the rhythm of the words.

When presented with a choice of beginnings, choose the one with meaning.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

Revelation also comes in receiving greater understanding of the endowment as one seeks to comprehend its meaning.

Viktor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist, survived a Nazi concentration camp to write Man's Search for Meaning,

The only way to exact meaning from an otherwise futile existence is to connect yourself by faith to God.

We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant.