Quotes About Meaning

For me, that emotional payoff is what it's all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask? Are you beyond why?' Oh shit, we're all beyond why, you know that.

It seemed right to do it this way, because the rite of passage is a magic corridor and so we always provide an aisle - it's what you walk down when you get married, what they carry you down when you get buried. Our corridor was those twin rails, and we walked between them, just bopping along toward whatever this was supposed to mean.

I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die—I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created—but I believe there has to be something.

la buena literatura podía ser embriagadora sin renunciar al hilo conductor de las ideas.

Philosophers have debated the meaning of life for centuries, rarely coming to the same conclusion.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

When you stop living for luxuries, you understand the real meaning of life.

Until you are Tried and Tested, Your Greatness will have no meaning

It's not money which will make your life meaningful.it's life which will make your money meaningful.

If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something.

Everything we do means something.

Love means touching someone's soul may or may not be body

The purpose of living is living for a purpose.

Not everything that's small is insignificant.

As I look back on the time I've spent with him, loving him, learning him, I'm grateful for the moments. Because in the end, it's the moments that make life worth living...

Without Purpose, LIVING is downgraded to Breathing a boring routine of inhaling oxygen - waiting to exhale

Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning.

How did I picture the life after the grave? I fairly bawled out at him: "A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

Every experience has a pattern and sometimes it teaches us through the spirit of patience captured, that there are no coincidences in life.