Quotes About Meaning

Cu cât suntem mai personali, mai identificaÈ›i cu intenÈ›iile noastre, cu cât fapta noastr? coincide mai perfect cu gândul nostru – cu atât suntem mai ridicoli

Myth expresses in action and drama what metaphysics and theology define dialectically.

Sacredness is, above all, real.

Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of it, I said.

Do you know that hobo is an acronym for Homeward Bound?

Will carried Zoe on his back and zoomed around on the sidewalk and she laughed and bounced up and down and lost one of her flip-flops so we had to go back and retrace our steps in the dark which I suppose is the meaning of life.

Jo no he dit mai que no cregués en l'amor, diu ella. Només que no estic segura de què significa exactament. En tot cas, el que he dit abans era que no creia en la seguretat que dieu que proporciona l'amor.

He says it's a condition of our relationship that I don't smoke, she says. We laugh. We are tired. Too tired to confront conditions.

we had to go back and retrace our steps in the dark which I suppose is the meaning of life.

you better write me letters. I said yeah, I will, but they'll be boring. Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. Well, I said, I'll try. No, Yoli, said Elf, better than that. She yanked on my arms. Please. You have to. I'm counting on you.

Listen, I said, I don't think you understand. I don't want to be presumptuous, but really how could you understand what another person's suicide means? My friend asked the waitress for more coffee. I said that actually, now, I'd begun to measure a person's character and integrity by their ability to kill themselves.

You better write me letters. I said yeah, I will, but they'll be boring. Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. Well, I said, I'll try".

Mi smo vremenom prožeti, a ono tek po nama ima svoj smisao.

Filip se gubio u detaljima te nikako nije mogao da tim detaljima oko sebe udahne neki dublji smisao.

All men are in search of happiness. . . . This is the motive for men's every action, even those who are going to hang themselves.

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

Sacrfice, the captain said. You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.

and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.

If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.