Quotes About Meaning

Do you know where 'policeman' comes from, sir? ... 'Polis' used to mean 'city', said Carrot. That's what policeman means: 'a man for the city'. Not many people knew that. The word 'polite' comes from 'polis', too. It used to mean the proper behaviour from someone living in a city.

To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

Roland Barthes says, "That which cannot be named is a disturbance.

Once you know that you have a voice," Louis said, "it's no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.

words are much stronger than I am.

To be numb to the world is another form of suicide.

What will we make of the life before us? How do we translate the gifts of solitary beauty into the action required for true participatory citizenship?

Yet I see that she means for me to understand about choosing to truly live or choosing to stay alive when you have died inside.

To fully experience this life as a human being, we all need to connect with our desire to realize something larger than our individual selves.

This brings her a lot of joy and gives her life meaning. This can be true for all of us anytime, anywhere. Just saying a few words that make another person suffer less can give our lives meaning. And it is something we can do anywhere. When your life is meaningful, happiness becomes a reality and you become a bodhisattva right here and now.

And for the first time in their existence, their mean, unhappy lives became happy and meaningful because of one simple phrase... LOVE.

Let us offer our work to the Divine; this is the sure means of progressing. Go and prepare yourself and the best preparation is to be useful to the Divine's work. Works Of The Mother, vol.14, p.319

I am on earth because it is on earth that the divine work must he done, and for no other reason. Works of the Mother, vol. 17, p.119

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. When each individual realises for himself that this thing primarily stands for and should only be accepted as a moral due—that it should be paid out as honestly stored energy, and not as a usurped privilege—many of our social, religious, and political troubles will have permanently passed.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

What's freedom for? To know eternity.

Por qué tenemos que amar donde cae el relámpago y no donde nosotros elegimos?... Pero me alegro que seas tú, pequeño principe. Me alegro que seas tú.

Acaso hay algún amor en alguna parte sin su propio lenguaje?

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

Love has no meaning without understanding

We have to restore the meaning of the word 'love.' We have been using it in a careless way. When we say, 'I love hamburgers,' we are not talking about love. We are talking about our appetite, our desire for hamburgers. We should not dramatize our speech and misuse words like that. We make words like 'love' sick that way. We have to make an effort to heal our language by using words carefully. the word 'love' is a beautiful word. We have to restore its meaning (31).

I think there's a lot of writers who took rock music more seriously: Greil Marcus, Jon Landau.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.