Quotes about Meaning

Just as ships are built to sail the seas and planes to fly the heavens, so is man created for a purpose.

To some people who said they believed, religion was a word; to others, it defined who they were.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

You are here for a reason.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.