Quotes about Meaning

This poem is not addressed to you.]" This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, no one. You will have changed before the poem will. Even while you sit there, unmovable, You have begun to vanish. And it does not matter. The poem will go on without you. It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.

God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.