Quotes about Meaning
Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.
— Paulo Coelho
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.
— Paulo Coelho
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
— Paulo Coelho
I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.
— Paulo Coelho
The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.
— Paulo Coelho
Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.
— Paulo Coelho
All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning
— Paulo Coelho
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.
— Paulo Coelho
Signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.
— Paulo Coelho
Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.
— Paulo Coelho
If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.
— Paulo Coelho
Our heart knows why we are here. Whoever listens to his heart, follows the signs, and lives his Personal Legend, will understand that he is taking part in something, even if he doesn't comprehend it rationally. There is a tradition which says that, the second before our death, we realize the true reason for our existence. And at that moment, Hell and Heaven are born.
— Paulo Coelho