Quotes about Meaning
I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
— Bill Bailey
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
— CS Lewis
There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.
— Hudson Taylor
You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
— Steve Jobs
I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire.
— Nick Vujicic
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
— Ayn Rand
It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
— CS Lewis
Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.
— Kay Warren