Quotes About Meaning

I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.

We are here to love. Not much else matters.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

What is life without the radiance of love?

Love is the very essence of life.

I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

The purpose of it all is love.

The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

if there is an afterlife, then nothing here mattered, and if there isn't an afterlife, nothing here mattered.

He loved a girl once; for no particular reason, just a lot of little ones thrown together. Isn't that what love is, anyway? The sum of a million intangibles that all come together in just the right way at just the right time? Like conception. Or the universe.

Conventions need have no rationale apart from the rationale of having a convention.

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

Somewhat magically, when we do feel our work has meaning, it gives us a turbo boost of confidence to step up and have impact.

Je hebt uiteindelijk je begeerte lief en niet het begeerde.' Het kwam er veel plechtiger uit dan bedoeld. Meteen had hij spijt het te hebben gezegd. Simon wist dat het waar was, maar wist ook dat het aanmatigend was om te zeggen dat het waar was. Lizzie fronste. Zij vroeg of hij het nog eens wilde zeggen. Toen zei ze: 'Nou, dat vind ik niet. Ik hou gewoon van jou.

The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that's so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.