Quotes About Meaning

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

[Your] search for meaning in the world... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place.

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.

Happiness is the fragrance, not the fruit of an action.

Strictly speaking, nothing that's said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can't ever say it.)

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.

From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.

People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!

There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I'm not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I'd want you to hear.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

Instead of asking, "what do I want from life?," a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?

I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That's the point of this whole thing. That's what cuts through all the 'stuff'. You get lit up. You don't have to know what it means.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.