Quotes About Meaning

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.

What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Your life is your message.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.

Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.

Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself.

I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.