1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.

All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy.

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

If it is true that life has no purpose or meaning, it is equally true that it is wonderful to live, to feel the warmth and heat of life in every pore and cell of one's being.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Desire, when coupled with meaning or purpose, can be our greatest realization in understanding what we’re doing here.