Quotes About Meaning

It's on the third night, during our game, that I answer the question eating away at me. Crazy Cat becomes a metaphor for my situation. I am Buttercup. Peeta, the thing I want so badly to secure, is the light.

We seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life. I try to follow Dr. Aurelius's advice, just going through the motions, amazed when one finally has meaning again.

think . . . you still have no idea. The effect you can have." He slides his cuffs up the support and pushes himself to a sitting position. "None

I'm glad you decided to come." "It doesn't mean anything." He grinned. "Everything means something.

in England. If you are awake it's already vulgar." The

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Why are you here?" Lucy asks incredulously. "You didn't say yes?" I shake my head, and my sister looks offended on behalf of the entire female species. "I'm sorry to say this, Elise," she states, taking out a slice and biting off the end. "I think you need therapy.

What he doesn't realize is I've been taking charity every time I let Travis buy me lunch, every time Retha and her mom bring us food. No—he doesn't ask for charity. He gets to keep his pride, leaving me to sacrifice mine instead.

life is worth a whole lot more when your on the verge of losing it!

Wat purpose does your god serve, what is he good for?" Their simple answer puzzles him: "For play!

What purpose does your god serve, what is he good for?' Their simple answer puzzles him: 'For play!

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.

Sometimes I think that the long-term work of reading is to discover one by one, the books that hold the scattered elements of our nature, after which the true consummation can begin. We undertake the gradual focused exploration, nuance by nuance, of their meanings, their implications; we follow out the strands that mysteriously connect the words of another with the unformulated stuff of the self.

Se não sofreres, nem sequer podes dizer que estás viva.

Until we discover this Spiritual Centre in ourselves, the God in us, we will be confused, miserable, unsatisfied and disturbed, an enigma to ourselves and to others.

First, believe in this world - that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!

He works for work's sake. "Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake.

Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake. Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.

When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.

I wanted to save people's lives. I wanted to do something good in this world.

Eventually, when I got the 'Meadowland' script, I saw something in it that made me think I could make something special out of it, something that could work with my style. Emotionally, I connected to it. I thought, 'If I feel this way just imagining it, maybe we can make that happen on screen and make people feel something when they watch it.'

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.