Quotes about Meaning
There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.
— Harold S. Kushner
Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.
— Henri Nouwen
It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.
— Henry Reed
You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'
— Rick Warren
When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.
— Tim Tebow
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.
— Ann Voskamp
Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful, " then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.
— Mario Puzo
The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.
— Marty Rubin
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
— Rick Warren
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
— John Milton
No matter how little money we have, no matter what rung we occupy on anybody's corporate ladder of success, in the end what everybody discovers is that what matters is other people. Human beings who give themselves to relational greatness—who have friends they laugh with, cry with, learn with, fight with, dance with, live and love and grow old and die with—these are the human beings who lead magnificent lives.
— John Ortberg