Quotes About Meaning

transcendence, if it meant anything at all, was the accommodation to limits: a finding of freedom within them, not a breaking of them.

And then he was just weary. His job was done. Existence seemed a pointless series of problems. What was identity? Better never to have been. He shut his eyes.

Only that she is the light of our days and without her life would be very dull in this house. She's a trial, there's no doubt about that, but all things worthwhile are trials. Life's a trial, it's a battle, it's a strife from the day you're born. And that's shared out between rich and poor alike, only the Lord seems to be more generous towards the poor with it, if you know what I mean.

All qualities, relations, and categories are thus fluctuating and changeable and relative to observers. A day might come when 'slave' has only a historical meaning.

Everything seemed to be a clue to the hereafter, now that one of her own had gone there.

For some people, small, beautiful events are what life is all about.

GRETZ: You yield in every duel! KY: I do not! GRETZ: What do you think, Qui-Gon? QUI-GON: I think you should be quiet.

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell

The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend's life. Friends choose certain friends because that's the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they're the correct height, age, or have the right hair color

Rosie: What the hell was that silence? Steph: It sounds like something I'd like. It sounded nice. Rosie: It was.

the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.

It's funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when the moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. I like to think the best ones of all are in my mind, that they run through my blood in their own memory bank for no one else but me to see.

I'm missing something, you know? That special 'sparkle' that ;life is supposed to bring. I have the job, the child, the family, the apartment and the friends, but I've lost the sparkle./

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance.

Friends come in all different shapes and sizes... The important thing is not what we look like but the role we play in our best friend's life. Friends choose certain friends because that's the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they're the correct height, age or have the right hair colour. It's not always the case but often there's a reason why...

We're not in this life just to work, we're in it to live.

Dad was more into last impressions than first ones, which makes his death all the more symbolic.

It's the extras that make life." "That make life what?" she whispered. He smiled. "That make life." Elizabeth swallowed the lump in her throat. "That's it?" Ivan smiled. "What do you mean, that's it? How much more can you get than life, how much more can you ask for than life? That's the gift. Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.

Life's kind of like a painting. A really bizzare, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is just a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more.

She's just a friend. Four words that could possibly kill any woman, but they made me smile... And the castle was my witness.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader?

ONE THING OF GREAT IMPORTANCE can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude.