Quotes about Meaning
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
— Edith Schaeffer
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
— Henry David Thoreau
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
— Maya Angelou
What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.
— Max Lucado
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
— Harold S. Kushner
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
— William Barclay
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
— William Barclay
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
— William Faulkner
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
— William Hazlitt
Words are the only things that last for ever.
— William Hazlitt
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
— William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
— William James