Meaning Quotes - page 3

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. (Ben Carson)
The meaning of life is that it stops. View quote
Franz Kafka
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. View quote
Milan Kundera
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. View quote
Marc Chagall
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. View quote
Aristotle
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. View quote
Richard M. DeVos
[T]he only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. View quote
Daniel Dennett
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. View quote
Max Frisch
The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities. View quote
David Zindell
My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point. View quote
James Thurber
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. (Michael Shermer)
We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future. View quote
John Dewey
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. View quote
Alfred Marshall
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. View quote
Zane Grey
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. View quote
Viktor Frankl
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. View quote
Viktor Frankl
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. View quote
Viktor Frankl
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.... Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went. View quote
Robert Frost
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. (Stephen Hawking)
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. View quote
Hal Borland
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. View quote
Margaret Atwood
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
📖 Meaning Proverbs