Quotes about Meaning

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens — these things, too, are the works of peace.

There had been that young Catholic girl in the bed next to me at the hospital who gave me a medal of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. "I don't believe in these things," I told her, and it was another example of people saying what they do not mean. "If you love someone you like to have something around which reminds you of them," she told me.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation.

The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.