Quotes about Meaning

What finally helped was an image from a medieval monk, Brother Lawrence, who saw all of us as trees in winter, with little to give, stripped of leaves and color and growth, whom God loves unconditionally anyway. My priest friend Margaret, who works with the aged and who shared this image with me, wanted me to see that even though these old people are no longer useful in any traditional meaning of the word, they are there to be loved unconditionally, like trees in the winter. When

The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise

Writing involves seeing people suffer and, as Robert Stone once put it, finding some meaning therein.

I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

To search for God is to have found God is deeply profound, because the belief we hold in the existence of another world opens space within us, and around us, which creates a more radiant reality.

We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.

Bullet points are not the point.

You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

Here's another way to describe the two axes: One asks, Can you see it? The other wonders, Do you care?

As Susan Kare, designer of the original Mac interface, said, "You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

Theodore Levitt famously said, "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole." The lesson is that the drill bit is merely a feature, a means to an end, but what people truly want is the hole it makes.

Art is what we call it when we're able to create something new that changes someone.