Quotes About Meaning

Let us remember that things are not what make us fulfilled. Experiences are.

I love the idea that a family doesn't need so much stuff to be whole, that perhaps there are other ways to feel full.

When someone tells you the story of their suffering, they are probably still suffering in some way. No one else gets to decide what that suffering means, or if it has any meaning at all. And we sure as hell don't get to tell someone that God never gives anybody more than they can handle or that God has a plan. We do not get to cut off someone's suffering at the pass by telling them it has some greater purpose.

people talk to the chaplain about their families because that is how we talk about God. That is how we talk about the meaning of our lives. That is how we talk about the big spiritual questions of human existence. We

We listen to the stories that people believe have shaped their lives. We listen to the stories people choose to tell, and the meaning they make of those stories.

When people tell their stories again and again, turning them over and over, they're trying to make or find meaning in them. That meaning is something they have to discover for themselves. As painful as the process might be, there is no circumnavigating it, either with the most thoughtful ideas you can offer or with the most hackneyed clichés. The meaning a person finds will almost never be the same one you can come up with. It will always be richer, more nuanced, more surprising.

His voice was heavy with Slavic fatalism.

She may be an instrument of the devil, but she was a polite instrument.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver.

Whatever. I'm pretty sure Mercutio was a vampire. He had the attitude, you know? He just never got a chance to show his fangs.

I'm sure he knows you love him. All fathers know that children sometimes say things they really don't mean.

I shook my head. "Go on, swear it!" "I swear by my life!" cried Aunt Maddy happily. "I swear," murmured the others, rather embarrassed. Nick began giggling nervously, because Aunt Maddy had begum humming the national anthem to show what a solemn occasion it was.

Für mich brauchst du keine Magie, um etwas Besonderes zu sein.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given. Every one should, for the good of men and the saving of his own soul, believe that it is possible, even if we are the enemies of the human race, to be the friends of God.

The stone is not what I say it is. It's what you see in it.

that is what life is for it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

What it means" is ultimately not a matter of theory only but of practice, not a matter of sheer knowledge but of wisdom.

North Americans think they know how to speak Christian, but what they say is actually a gross distortion. Either people do not know Christian words at all, or they have heard them but do not know what they mean, or they think they know what they mean when in fact they mean something completely different.

If actions speak louder than words, it is because they lend the weight of behavior (real assent) to belief (nominal assent).

Spend your death on living.

Even when it was happening to me, I thought, 'This will make a good story someday,' but now that I think of it, its story's not that good at all. More important than its plot, it's the quality of feeling that strikes me now-something out of this world, 'outlandish' in its literal sense.

All this is happening for a reason." Yeah, she thought, to annoy me.