Quotes about Meaning
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind
— Elias Canetti
Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
— Arianna Huffington
Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as "an apothecary for the soul.
— Arianna Huffington
Happiness consists in the consciousness of a life in which the highest Virtue is actively manifested.
— Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
— Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
— Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
— Herman Melville
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.
— Anne Graham Lotz