Quotes About Meaning

I am a great success, not because of what I have, but because, through service, I found enduring happiness.

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

Our goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of life is happiness.

Happiness is the goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of our life.

You cannot capture warmth in a toast, but you can capture toast in a warmth.

sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

If the only thing that matters is what is written on your heart seek those things that matter most.

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.

If you help someones bank account rise But you can't help their heart feel... Really, what is your value?

No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.

Information is a difference that makes a difference. Truth is information that doesn't change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn't make a difference.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life.

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

If you don't have love, you don't have much at all.

All this, he felt, he would now re-enter. He could inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before.

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.

What we were doing wasn't about being really good musicians," Lewis says. "It always seemed to me it was about making a song. We're just making a song.

it kind of seemed like we were in a constant state of suicide the whole time. It wasn't like, 'Gee, we're going to become successful and make a lot of money.' It was more like, 'Man, we're going to have a lot of fun before the end comes and we all hit the can.

Depth is not something the writer puts into a book; it's something the reader takes out of it.

Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away.

Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake.

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like How sane are we? and Do our lives have meaning? The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.