Quotes About Meaning

Today, poverty in America means whatever government statisticians in Washington say it means.

Tu vois, je crois que... Cette lutte de tous les jours, elle repose sur l'amour. Pas sur l'ambition, le besoin d'avoir, de posséder, mais sur l'amour... Pas l'amour de sois non plus. Ça c'est le malheur, c'est ce qui nous fait tourner en rond. Non ! Sur l'amour des autres, l'amour de la vie. Quand tu aimes, tu es sauvée.

We have to stop asking why this is happening to me and start asking why it is happening for me.

Soulful marriages are often odd on the surface. —Thomas Moore

The word translated 'carpenter' in Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3 for how Joseph and Jesus made a living is the Greek word tekt?n. It means 'builder.' You see, when the writers of the King James Version were translating the Greek into the English, they assumed, 'Oh, these guys were carpenters. Just like us.

And I learned all those many years ago to stop listening to what people said, and listen instead to what they mean. Some people speak with honey and intend to serve us poison. You, my lord, speak with thorns but yearn for cake.

Joy means so much more when shared with you.

Try to go infinitely deep into any piece of the distance of time. If there is eternal life, a friend says, it will not be in the length of your life, but in its depth…I don't think there is any limit to the depth of each moment, and I am going to try to live in a way that plumbs those depths, to live thickly, expanding the reach of my moment down into the mire of detail and up into the damp and cry-filled air.

Él no debe sentirse obligado a brindarme más amabilidad de la que desea. Si no la ofrece por su propia voluntad, no significa nada.

It's poetry's job, isn't it, to keep making sense of the world in language, to keep the negotiation going? We can't relinquish that.

me was somehow tied up in that simple little verse. I clung to it for comfort. I held it close, examining its every facet. Yet as the weeks, months, then years began to pass, I came to realize I would never fully plumb the depths of its meaning—at least not in this life. Its meaning would always

religious traditions build up meaning only over time and in a communal context. They can't be purchased like a burger or a pair of shoes.

But the joke is on us: what we think we are only 'getting through' has the power to change us, just as we have the power to transform what seems meaningless—the endless repetitions of a litany or the motions of vacuuming a floor.

get a life,' current slang suggesting that life itself is a commodity [ Out of the Garden ].

For me, preaching is not teaching. It is not about something I know well enough to pass on, but a means of suggesting and pointing to possibilities I have discovered in a text as it interacts with life itself.

Because she was connected to you. Because even despite her absence, she existed and you existed. You are a fact in each other's lives in the same way that the sea exists even if you never go to the seaside.

what they mean by 'love conquers all.' It doesn't transcend life. But it gives it integrity, a noble aim, no matter what the result.

They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose lives were so pleasantly arranged that they hungered for beauty and meaning rather than food. The

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

Some people think what you're supposed to do in life is fill yourself up with loads of things like names, the more the better. But that's not how it works.

But there's more to why I chose you.

Nessuno pensa alla penna mentre legge una lettera [...] vuole solo conoscere l'intenzione della persona che l'ha scritta.

to her Christ was actual and real, and for those prepared to perceive this reality suffering need be neither senseless nor solitary

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.