Thinking About The Meaning Of Life Quotes

#1. Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

Antoni Tapies

#2. I apologise for my behaviour lately. I haven't ... been myself."
Or she'd just been a part of herself that she usually kept on a tight, tight leash, he thought. But he said, "I understand."
And from the way her eyes softened, he knew that was all he'd ever needed to say.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind.

Carl Jung

#4. Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.

Mika.

#5. The basic line in any good verse is cadenced ... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

Kenneth Rexroth

#6. Normally I didn't attend my father's funerals unless I was scheduled to sing, but it wasn't every day Dad buried a rock star.

Linda Budzinski

#7. I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

Walter Hill

#8. We who run ... are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

George A. Sheehan

#9. Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long ...

Roald Dahl

#10. I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

Lauren Willig

#11. Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

Paulo Coelho

#12. By believing your work is a 'gift,' it radically changes what you create. I think this is a revolutionary idea. It's no longer about client approval or a paycheck, but aspiring to make work that has meaning and purpose in your life and for your audience.

James Victore

#13. I'm also influenced by all the places I've traveled since then: I've been to Hollywood and great fashion shows and seen the world. I have a different perspective, and I mix that up.

Jennifer Lopez

#14. There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. In tracking what people have to say about schooling, I notice that most of the conversation is about means, rarely about ends ... It is as if we are a nation of technicians, consumed by our expertise in how something should be done, afraid or incapable of thinking about why.

Neil Postman

#16. Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work.

Susan Egan

#17. A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#18. We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.

Beth Gibbons

#19. Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

Andy Warhol

#20. Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and channelizing the power of your emotions and imagination for fulfilling a bigger dream - the dream that will bring more life, energy peace, happiness and meaning to you and the society.

Amit Ray

#21. Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

Ferdinand Mount

#22. Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. ... We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.

Joan D. Chittister

#23. For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?

Simon Critchley

#24. After two rounds of chemo, I've started to notice, slowly, but surely, my hair has started to appear more regularly in my shower drain, sink drain, pillowcase and comb.

Amy Robach

#25. I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.

Chad Urmston