Quotes about Meaning
We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.
- Rick Warren
My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.
- Oprah Winfrey
We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
- Mother Teresa
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
- Charles Dickens
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
- Albert Camus
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
- Elbert Hubbard
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
- CS Lewis
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
- Albert Camus