1,900 Quotes About Meaning

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning.

The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.

When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.

But we must be aware that art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. Christianity is true; things and actions and human endeavor only get their meaning from their relationship to God.

To be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present, no thought of what's gone before and no thought of what lies ahead. But a life with meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.

Time is rarely the limiting factor -- more so, structure often is.

In the body there are two creatures, and they are both in enmity with each other. For one to do anything, the other has to be subjected to it. One has a mind and the other only has an appetite. The more the mind gets, the more it is satisfied, but the more the appetite gets, the more its hunger grows; its appetite is for imaginary things, it dreams that it is eating, but when it wake, which it dreads to do, it is empty and pangs.

No action is safe from meaning.

Quem quer o verdadeiro tesouro não aspira ao mundo, mas ao paraíso; não ao tempo mas à eternidade; quem, porém, busca os tesouros da terra e não cuida de arte, nem de religião, há de se afundar necessariamente na realidade besta que não dá lágrimas, mas também não produz nem júbilo, nem gozo, mas apenas o mísero relato das coisas que passarão.