Quotes about Meaning
You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything.
— Ernest Hemingway
By then I knew that everything good and bad left emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
— Ernest Hemingway
You know I do know how he feels. He can't believe it didn't mean anything.
— Ernest Hemingway
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.
— Etty Hillesum
When you have an interior life, it certainly doesn't matter what side of the prison fence you're on.... I've already died a thousand times in a thousand concentration camps. I know everything. There is no new information to trouble me. One way or another, I already know everything. And yet, I find this life beautiful and rich in meaning. At every moment.
— Etty Hillesum
Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
If you are breathing, you are still alive. If you are alive, then you are still here, physically, on this planet. If you are still here, then you have not completed what you were put on earth to do. If you have not completed what you were put on earth to do … that means your very purpose has not yet been fulfilled. If your purpose has not yet been fulfilled, then the most important part of your life has not yet been lived.
— Andy Andrews
Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely. Don't squander your words or your thoughts. Consider that even the simplest actions you take for your lives matter beyond measure...and they matter forever.
— Andy Andrews
When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.
— Andy Andrews
Our approach to communicating should be shaped by our goal in communicating.
— Andy Stanley
Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?
— Bob Goff
Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.
— Tim Tebow