#meaning

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#adventurous #change #embrace #exciting #familiar

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better. ↗

— Paula Cole

#answers #better #feel #frustrated #i

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#altered #being #claim #despair #ever

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#find #hey #i #i think #increase

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#gotta #head #keep #making #meaning

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#answer #ask #enough #god #i

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#characteristic #deed #either #given #indian

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #concerned #consists #earnestly #faith

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#act #am #daily #days #effort

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#more #pulitzer #than #useful