Quotes about Meaning
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: "What are you doing for others?" Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
- Joseph Campbell
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why.
- William Barclay
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
- Wayne Dyer
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James
Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.
- Karen Kingsbury
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
- Margaret Fuller
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
- Marianne Williamson
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
- Corrie Ten Boom