Quotes About Meaning

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

Ask yourself the "So what?" question. Ask it several times. Where does it lead you?

Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

You work nearly all your life to retire, yet, when you finally do, you're so conditioned to work that you suffer from a lack of meaningful deeds to be accomplished. Joe silently shook his head and laid the cola on

Brez poznavanja svoje duše, reinkarnacije in karme osebnost ne more vedno razumeti pomena ali smisla dogodkov svojega življenja ali razumeti posledic svojega odzivanja nanje.

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.

Words ... are little houses, each with its cellar and garret.

Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries. For a dreamer, a dreamer of words, they are all swollen with insanities. Besides, let anyone dream, and incubate a very familiar word for a little while. Then the must unexpected rare things hatch out of the word which was sleeping in its inert meaning, like a fossil of meaning.

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Of course, talking only in proverbs would be impossible. Proverbs are full of poetry and twists. They are made up of words that have been molded for centuries, if not milleniums, until a minimum of words carry an extraordinary potential for meaning.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

But troubles far more menacing than sodomy threatened Japan.

We don't need to push ourselves toward a goal when we're drawn toward our calling. That is the purpose of purpose.

The role of the canon as scripture of the church and vehicle for its actualization through the Spirit is to provide an opening and a check to continually new figurative applications of its apostolic content as it extends the original meaning to the changing circumstances of the community of faith (cf. Frei, Eclipse, 2–16). These figurative applications are not held in isolation from its plain sense, but an extension of the one story of God's purpose in Jesus Christ.

On the basis of these definitions, hymns cannot do theology, even when the meaning of "reasoned enquiry" is broadened and qualified. 6 Their brevity and form are ill suited to systematic reasoning, and, though not lacking in rationality, a hymn invites us, not to step back from faith and examine it, but to step into faith and worship God.

Real Reason: There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.

there are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.

I buried a nickel under the porch when I was 8, she said, but one day my grandma died & they sold the house & I never got to go back for it. A nickel used to mean something, I said. She nodded. It still does, she said & then she started to cry.