Quotes About Meaning

Her short path through life had been written and it was not her right to know the meaning, only the outcome.

Solutions to problems never trespass into anything of real value.

Because a book is a life, like one man is a life.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. Studs Terkel

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread.

Nora Watson may have said it most succinctly. "I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. Perhaps immortality, too, is part of the quest. To be remembered was the wish, spoken and unspoken, of the heroes and heroines of this book.

Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut

In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

Books are big enough and powerful enough to define and contain identity.--Aaron Lansky

the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.

Just, that we read fiction because it suggests that life has a shape, and we feel . . . consoled, I think he said, by that notion. Consoled to think that life isn't just one damned thing after another. That it has sequence and consequence." She smiled at Edith. "I think it was more or less the idea that fictional narrative made life seem to matter, that it pushed away the meaninglessness of death.

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

If you have your why? in life, you can get along with almost any how? People don't strive for happiness, only the English do.

Meaning must be found through saying "yes" to the divine accidents on the dance floor.

Are we happy? I am God, I have created this parody]

On reflecting at dinner that he had done nothing to help anybody all day, he uttered these memorable and praiseworthy words: "Friends, I have lost a day.

This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.