Quotes about Meaning

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

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.