Quotes about Meaning
I have no dispute with any man concerning morals, but only concerning the word of truth. In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word. He who thinks otherwise of me, or has taken in my words in another sense, does not think rightly, and has not taken in the truth.
- Martin Luther
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.
- Anonymous
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
- John Maxwell
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
- Anonymous
Why do we have to listen to our hearts? Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.
- Paulo Coelho
Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now?
- CS Lewis
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.
- Paulo Coelho