1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Our brains allow us not only to create our personal story of self but to edit, interpret, and find meaning in what we are creating.

This is your one and only life. Your lost lines are waiting. Start where you are. Be open. Be bold. Explore. Face your greatest fears. Wrestle with the deep questions of life. Find and inhabit a story that ignites your soul.Anyone can find and live their lost lines, but not everyone will.

I can quote a million people but in the end it only comes down to one thing"Faith

If we let them, our festering wounds will steer our life more than our growing convictions. It may take longer to find deep convictions if we are fixated on avoiding pain instead of finding something worth enduring pain for. Running away from where we think we want to be least is different than running towards where we want to be most.

Don't just sit there trying to make a sense of this world. Be a part of the nonsense.

Writing fixes the evanescence of sound and holds it against death.

A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.

Zhaozhou often quoted this saying by Sengcan: “The great way is not difficult if you just don’t pick and choose.

Our most radical changes in perspective often happen at the tail end of our worst moments. It's only when we feel intense pain that we're willing to look at our values and question why they seem to be failing us. We need some sort of existential crisis to take an objective look at how we've been deriving meaning in our life, and then consider changing course. (p.154)