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Quotes About Meaning

Everything Sarah writes is what he needs to hear. Of course he knows this can be explained as a trick of love, that every word spoken by a lover becomes radiantly relevant and overlaid with gold.
~ Carol Shields
Question: What's the difference between a cat and a comma? Answer: A cat has claws at the end of its paws, and a comma means a pause at the end of a clause.
~ Carol Weston
If you have life, you have purpose.
~ Caroline Myss
By learning to identify your energy patterns, you will be able to gain a much greater vision of the meaning and purpose of your many experiences and relationships.
~ Caroline Myss
To believe in an invisible order, a divine or implicate order, as quantum physics calls it, or the order beneath the disorder that chaos theory describes, is a healthier, more interesting choice than seeing no meaning in life whatsoever.
~ Caroline Myss
We do indeed weave our spirit to the events and relationships of our lives. Life is as simple as that.
~ Caroline Myss
Literal interpretation creates separation, whereas symbolic interpretation—seeing that all of them address the identical design of our spiritual natures—brings us together.
~ Caroline Myss
The unconscious life is just that—unconscious. You aren't even aware that you aren't aware of anything. You just think about the basics of life—food, clothing, money. It never occurs to you to wonder about for what purpose were you created. And then, once you ask that question, you can't stop asking it again and again. It always leads to another truth.
~ Caroline Myss
It's been said that people come into your path for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. I'm hoping you are in my path for all three.
~ Carolyn Brown
Through you I learn what life may be.
~ Carolyn Brown
Every time I think we're on to something meaningful, it dissolves into nothing.
~ Carolyn Keene
Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.
~ Carolyn Kizer
God has a purpose for our feelings -- the good and the bad.
~ Carolyn Mahaney
As if death were a resource that had to be earned, that could ever be used up or wasted.
~ Carrie Vaughn
That we have purpose for being who we are, and what we are, though we may not always know it.
~ Carrie Vaughn
We're going to the Park and Ride on 93. We'll drop the car off and head into the hills. Then we start marking territory." "You're kidding," Shaun said. "Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'pissing contest,' " Ben said, grinning.
~ Carrie Vaughn
But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all.
~ Carson McCullers
You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have a meaning. Things have accumulated around your name.
~ Carson McCullers
What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle.
~ Carson McCullers
Because things accumulate around your name, said Berenice. You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have meaning. Things have accumulated around the name, if it is bad and you have a bad reputation, then you just can't jump out of your name and escape like that. And if it is good and you have a good reputation, then you should be content and satisfied.
~ Carson McCullers
He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.
~ Carson McCullers
You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have a meaning. Things have accumulated around the name.
~ Carson McCullers
Death. Sometimes he could almost feel it in the room with him. He rocked to and fro in the chair. What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle.
~ Carson McCullers
El porqué es lo único importante..., no el qué
~ Carson McCullers