Quotes About Meaning

a belief in each other, a belief that they cleave to only more strongly when death comes. For if the living let go of the dead, their own life ceases to matter. The fact of their own survival somehow demands that they are one, now and forever.

Trecutul nu este soarta ta, singura iti faci viata, ca atunci cand conduci masina, fie incet, neriscand nimic, necastigand nimic, fie repede, cand tot ceea ce conteaza e ce ai in fata, in clipa asta, iar tot ce e in spate nu mai are relevanta.

It did not mean those things he had been told it meant, that the soldier could now rest, that his job was done. What job? Why? How could anyone rest?

good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

It's odd how a piece of ground can hold so little of its meaning; though that's lucky, since for it to do so would make places sacred but impenetrable, whereas they're otherwise neither.

that jail existed for the opposite reason from why your home existed

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.

Love, Henry remembered thinking then, was a lengthy series of insignificant questions whose answers you couldn't live without.

I believe in what you see being most of what there is, as I've taught my students, and that life's passed along to us empty. So, while significance weighs heavy, that's the most it does. Hidden meaning is all but absent.

Nature doesn't rhyme her children,' I said, happy to remember the line of Emerson's

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

Our lives were passed on to us empty and our task was to make up being happy.

Sometimes, when people in the South tell you to have a blessed day, it means fuck you and I hope you have a nice time in hell.

The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.

Symbols become sacred to people because they represent loyalties deeper than words can express. That's why they hate to see their symbols violated.

Cuá»™c ??i là ?? s?ng t?t và tr?n v?n trong chính nó, ch? không ch? là khúc d?o ??u cho nh?ng gì có th? x?y ??n sau cái ch?t.

A life purpose is what I'm meant to do and be while I'm here on the earth.

Repacking is all about the why; it's

about the magic longevity pill of purpose? To age well also requires that we exercise our sense of purpose. And that

Purpose is the quality we chose to shape our lives around.

While the roles we play in life—parent, child, friend, author, coach, teacher, you name it—are important, they are not our life's purpose. Purpose is not a role or a goal; it is an aim and a mindset. To awaken, to grow, to continually give, and to make a difference to others—that's why we are here. It's who we bring to what we do.

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

They named me Kristin after some whale scientist in Australia, worked on the original translation team.

According to the psychosurgeons, we act more in keeping with our true selves in a dream than in any other situation, including the throes of orgasm and the moment of our deaths. Maybe that explains why so much of what we do in the real world makes so little sense.