Quotes about Meaning

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

Signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.

If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.

Our heart knows why we are here. Whoever listens to his heart, follows the signs, and lives his Personal Legend, will understand that he is taking part in something, even if he doesn't comprehend it rationally. There is a tradition which says that, the second before our death, we realize the true reason for our existence. And at that moment, Hell and Heaven are born.

God was there, and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.

Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that will destroy everything.

What remains will be the love that moves the heavens, the stars, people, flowers, insects, the love that obliges us all to walk across the ice despite the danger, that fills us with joy and with fear, and gives meaning to everything.

And, in that mood, he was grateful to be in love. When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.