Quotes about Meaning

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear. It's all about the Constitution the way it was meant to be. And those are the people that I will appoint.

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

finding God brings meaning into every moment—I

to be a fiction writer, you also need to be a psychologist (understanding people's personalities and intentions), a philosopher (asking big questions about meaning and human nature), and a poet (breathing life into your words and the spaces between them).

Tryphena?" "It's Greek. Means 'delicate.' Brin came across it the other day somewhere in the Bible,

Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

How can we love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength if we must separate our minds from our faith? Such a separation violates the very meaning of faith.