Quotes about Meaning

We are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Life is a mission, not a career.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

His prescription to experience a deep sense of meaning, then, was remarkably pragmatic. He had three recommendations: 1. Have a project to work on, some reason to get out of bed in the morning and preferably something that serves other people. 2. Have a redemptive perspective on life's challenges. That is, when something difficult happens, recognize the ways that difficulty also serves you. 3. Share your life with a person or people who love you unconditionally.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

If a person has known love, has felt and given love, that person's life has made a difference.

He wasn't just calling them into a life of sacrifice. He was calling them into a life of meaning, even the kind of meaning that would involve suffering. Suffering for a redemptive reason is hardly suffering, after all.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.