There is a meaning of life but I’ve been sworn to secrecy.

Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not. The influence of every experience in your life is determined by the meaning you assign to it. Assign a more useful...

How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from hiscreation? They create each other. On...

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery...

. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, ‘Do I or do I not wish to commit suicide?’ If we say, ‘No I do not,’ as most of us would,...

If I die very young, hear this:I was never anything but a kid playing.I was a heathen like the sun and the water,I had the universal religion only people don’t have.I was happy because I...

Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I’m not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never...

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note,” he said, “but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.

We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

The beautiful truth about service is that we are afforded countless opportunities to be its vehicle. Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve. From simply letting someone into your lane in traffic, to...

One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer ‘no’ time and time again, so he turns...

The will to dream, the courage to act and the hope to win are the stuffs that make life meaningful! Create the life you wish to live and live it fully!

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire–It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and...

Tony knows the names of trees and birds. As we walk around, he points them out to me. I try to record them in my mind, but the information never holds. What matters to me...

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience that we can...

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which...

Some things were said to individuals and some things were said in groups. It was friendly, but there was meaning behind it. It’s never always going to be smooth sailing, but it’s time to be...

Don’t for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don’t you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.

Part of me was afraid that if I raised my fist to the sky and demanded an answer now, I would hear a thundering and calloused, ‘Because I said so,” from God in heaven. And...

I live my life in widening circleThat reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one,But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower.I have been circling...

Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full...

Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.What makes someone an artist? I don’t think is has anything...

The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the...

Een doel, hoe nietig ook, verschafte het leven zin en betekenis.

I think it is a worrisome situation, especially because we think that swans could be an indicator species, meaning that swans are relatively susceptible and so it could well be that other aquatic birds could...

Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.

NOTHING MAKES SENSE. Do not look for any sense in things. It is not there. It is you who ascribe it to what you live or get to know. A defeat or a victory is...

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we’re given.

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

I think about the Old Ones, that they have a past but no history. I think about the inevitability of death, and whether it’s not that very inevitability that inspires us to take photographs and...

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?’ In the most evident sense they...

It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: ‘When are you going to do a solo record?’ Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to ‘Baluchitherium,’ meaning it...

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence], the only difference being that one answer corresponds more to the total needs...

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

Everyday has its own meaning. Find the reason of your survival of the day and accomplish it.

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

life do not give us a meaning.we give the meaning to everything we faced in life.as good or as bad.

Tut, tut, child!” said the Duchess. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.

Love is a cheap word. Anyone can say it, and few truly know what it means.