Quotes about Meaning

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

Life is short, God's way of encouraging a bit of focus.

The purpose of life is to have a life with purpose.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

I am grateful that my childhood was spent in a spot where there were many trees, trees of personality, planted and tended by hands long dead, bound up with everything of joy or sorrow that visited our lives. When I have lived with a tree for many years it seems to me like a beloved human companion.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed;

could not have understood what perverted shaped thwarted love can take.

but it seems to me there is something beyond words--any words--all words--something that always escapes you when you try to grasp it--and yet leaves something in your hand which you wouldn't have had if you hadn't reached for it.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth. That