Quotes about Meaning
The first most important day of you life is the day you were born. The second is when you discover why.
— Mark Twain
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born an the day you find out why.
— Mark Twain
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
if the man did not find something to die for,he will not fit to life...
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever I was, I owed to my family and to all those who struggled with me. But my biggest debt I owed to my wife. She was the one who gave my life meaning. All I could pledge to her, and to all those millions, was that I would do all I could to justify the faith that she, and they, had in me. I would try more than ever to make my life one of which she, and they, could be proud. I would do in private that which I knew my public responsibility demanded.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
But the judgement of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man has not discovered something that he could die for, he's not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is without a reason why it is rather than it is not
— Arthur Schopenhauer
What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', to escape boredom.
— Arthur Schopenhauer