Quotes About Meaning

That. . .is the paradox, the part that is perplexing. It seems, that if we take theses stories too literally, if we expect our personal lives to always end with a handsome prince, most of us will close our books with shattered dreams. Yet, on the other hand. . .if we don't take the meaning of these stories literally, if we treat theses tales as simple entertainment, we miss the deepest most life-changing aspects of the stories. We miss the entire reason they exist.

What I didn't understand was that in spite of their power, word meanings are sometimes hidden or disguised.

Stories are often layered with meaning. If you don't learn from a story's message, if you gloss over or dismiss it--even if it's a message with which you don't agree--then you have wasted not only your time but the writer's time as well.

Does everything always have to mean something else?" I ask before we get started. Who knew that literature was so tangled and complicated? "That is a wonderful lesson, Sang Ly. Remember it." "What was it again?" I ask, not certain to what she was referring. She repeats it for me. "In literature, everything means something.

But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together—and, quite frankly, they often don't get along.

I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I drink so much that I can barely walk...I'm a fantastic lover though, and an amazing friend. God knows I mean well.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out;

But life's only worth living if you live

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

As our culture has shifted the locus of meaning in life away from God and onto individual psychology, we have created a moral yardstick that measures the success of a human life in terms of psychological well-being. As

Evangelical theology is heretical if it is only creative and unworthy if it is only repetitious

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. But all creativeness in the realm of the spirit as well as every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul, and the cause of the suffering is spiritual stagnation, or psychic sterility.

YaÅŸam?m?n anlam?, yaÅŸam?n bana yönelttiÄŸi sorudad?r ya da tam tersi, ben kendim dünyaya yöneltilen bir soruyum ve yan?t?m? ona söylemezsem onun verdiÄŸi yan?ta baÄŸl? kalmak zorunda kal?r?m.

Llegué muy pronto a la convicción de que si no se da una respuesta y solución desde lo interno a las relaciones de la vida, su significado es muy pobre

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.