Top 1200 Purpose And Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?

It's good when someone says, "Would you write a song for this purpose," or "would you record a song for this purpose," or "would you help me realize this song," again, for this purpose.

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.

The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.

Everyone in life has a purpose, and nobody's purpose is better than anyone else's

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 each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

One needs to have some sense of purpose. Next, you need to have a vision that grows out of that purpose.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

There are some terrific resources on how to find individual purpose but relative resources on how to discover purpose and apply to an organization. My challenge was to show organizations how they could unlock the purpose of their organizations and put it to good use for employees to apply to their own jobs. The net effect is to help individuals, teams and organizations to optimize performance by understanding how to use purpose for good intention.

The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word or sentence or anything language-like, can't intelligibly be said to have meaning. An encouraging development in the last couple of decades is a return by philosophers to addressing - as nearly all people do at some time or another - the question of life's meaning.

The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.

The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a purpose. Without a clearly defined purpose, seven in ten individuals feel unsettled about their lives; with a purpose, almost seven in ten feel satisfied!

The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose.

He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

Well Buddhism, 'shmoodism', I didn't go to India looking for Buddhism. I was looking for truth, or God, or a better way of life or happiness, fulfillment, meaning, purpose. And a way to become peace in the world and not just fight for peace, as we had in the 60's.

Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.

You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.

Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.

The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose.

In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

As one of a handful of religion professors in the U.S. who study, write, and teach about conservative Christianity and politics, I am all too aware of the real meaning of the list and of its purpose. Promoted by Turning Point USA, the list is not simply designed to expose professors who discriminate; it is designed to silence and smear.

I can't even think of the right word, but it's not "help." It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so "tribe" and "belonging" are irreducible needs, like love.

"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

When I get angry, it's with purpose. My purpose is to solve a problem. And I never lose sight of that.

As has been stated, the purpose of money is to split barter into two parts so that the seller is free to find his source of supply later and elsewhere. This is the sole purpose of money. Any effort to use money to serve another purpose is perversive; and this statement condemns the entire managed money philosophy.

I have purpose. My life has meaning. I am engaged in a profession that I'm passionate about. I have some place to go every day. I'm expected. There's always a task at hand. I have beautiful relationships in my life. I have a beautiful home, I go to meetings. I work with others. I stay busy.

For a firm to be exceptional, it has to be led by purpose. Our purpose is to make an impact that matters.

What, after all, is the purpose of a woman’s life? The purpose of a woman’s life is just the same as the purpose of a man’s life: that she may make the best possible contribution to the generation in which she is living.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.