Quotes About Meaning

the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.

I am a symbol of my soul.

It is only the things we don't understand that have any meaning. Man woke up in a world he did not understand, and that is why he tries to interpret it.

Only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which "similar" things coincide, without there being any apparent cause.

The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.

A dream is nothing but a lucky idea that comes to us from the dark, all-unifying world of the psyche. What would be more natural, when we have lost ourselves amid the endless particulars and isolated details of the world's surface, than to knock at the door of dreams and inquire of them the bearings which would bring us closer to the basic facts of human existence?

Context is the necessary link that gives meaning to everything we observe.

Each child has something to teach us, a message that will help to explain why we are here. — from the Talmud

Newspaper reporters would now have to dig more deeply into more areas and to inform the public more thoroughly; they could no longer merely report all the facts, but they would often have to interpret the meaning behind these facts. The trick was to do this without editorializing.

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.

Mia ¿No lo entiendes? La música es el vacío y tú eres la razón de eso

How does it feel that the only worthy thing you ever ceeated came from the worst kind of loss.

Everyone takes a turn, and when it gets to me, I shout out what Jewish people say at times like this: "L'chaim!" "It means 'to life,'" I explain. And as I say it, I think that maybe this is what I was saying a prayer for back in the cathedral. To life.

Ali sada shva?am da je umrijeti lako. Teško je živjeti.

I understand then that giving me the computer is not really a gift. But maybe my taking it is.

No hay palabras para lo que te ha ocurrido. No hay nada positivo. Pero tienes algo por lo que vivir.

And right above that, in the blockish scrawl that would become so familiar to Bug over the years, the letter was signed with the only name Bug would ever now her best friend as, the person he was - the person he would always be. The letter was signed: Love, Frankie

What if the real question is not whether TO be, but HOW to be?