Quotes about Meaning
There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why.
— William Barclay
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
— Helen Keller
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
— Wayne Dyer
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
— William James
Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.
— Karen Kingsbury
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
— Margaret Fuller
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
— Marianne Williamson
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
— Anne Lamott
But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine
— Thomas Jefferson
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day
— George Eliot
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
— Carl Sagan