1,900 Quotes About Meaning

It occurred to me that so often in life, as we move around the stage set of this world, we feel as if we are trying to create a sense of truth about what we do. We use rituals and dates, and we imbue events with significance, all as part of our desperate attempt to make life feel real. But perhaps the only real is our private communion with a personal sense of meaning?

Fear is born within. When you choose to meet your fear, to its face, it will be the moment to go beyond your limiting beliefs and make the new meaning to your life.

If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more...

All cultures and peoples turn to poetry during times of celebration, transformation and challenge—those times when ordinary language cannot carry meaning beyond our understanding.

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world's population. But it is also a power which has, like everything human, its negative side, in the desolating sense of rootlessness, vacuity, and the lack of concrete feeling that assails modern man in his moments of real anxiety.

And our desire to knowEach other and desertEach other for newCenters of meaning so thatThe boundaries may reignAnd in doing so be undone.

Our problems are food for our sanity.

How can I shut downIf you don't open up??

Yet, the elders said, at times the world became too predictable and the challenge began to go out of life. Without challenge, life had no meaning.