Christopher Dawson Quotes

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

When we talk about Something More, it isn't wanting a fancier car, a bigger house, or a designer dress. Something More is what we need to fill our spiritual hunger.

The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

I think no matter whether you're old or young or dying or living, to get to a place where you feel fulfilled and content is really rare and really cool.

I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.

It's degrading or insulting to say somebody is a good person or has a soul. Each person has built this incredibly complex structure, and if you attribute it to a magical pearl in the middle of an oyster that makes you good, that's trivializing a person and keeps you from thinking of what's really happening.

I'm very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.

Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.

If that had been my only purpose in life - to call home runs and touchdowns - I'd lead a pretty shallow life.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

Life is not just food, it's something spiritual.

Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.'

The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?

Everybody needs to find their own path and the best way for themselves to connect to this world.

I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.

What the world need is people who have come alive.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?