Quotes About Meaning

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

What is life when living without the Lifemaker?

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die...

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.