Quotes about Meaning

Happiness consists in the consciousness of a life in which the highest Virtue is actively manifested.

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.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

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?

I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.

The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.