Quotes About Meaning

Our business is with life, not death.

I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

Life's too short to spend with important people.

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

We die, because we live.

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.

O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep and serious trouble. I can't, I just can't exist.

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.

Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.