Quotes about Meaning
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
— Leo Buscaglia
A life lived in love will never be dull.
— Leo Buscaglia
Archbishop Tutu once explained to me that suffering can either embitter us or ennoble us, and it tends to ennoble us if we are able to make meaning out of our suffering and use it for the benefit of others.
— Jane Goodall
Without meaning, life is empty and day will follow day, month will follow month.
— Jane Goodall
I think humanity at least has a shared understanding of what justice means.
— Jane Goodall
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
— John Calvin
God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
— Mother Teresa
Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
— Dale Carnegie
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
— Marc Chagall
My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.
— Marc Chagall
Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.
— Alister McGrath