Quotes About Meaning

Because there's always a reason for everything, isn't there? Because if there isn't a reason for even one thing, like how you can get sick, or your husband stop loving you, or people you love die—then there's no reason for anything. So there must be reasons.

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implications outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have that explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

I want to point out that the main reason our modern society cannot give us true and lasting self-esteem is that it cannot provide us with a meaningful understanding of what the self is.

Literature...I'm gonna study books - the way they're written and what the author meant to say by writing the story. When I'm done, I want to get a job in a library.

The album we've made is much more than a book. It's worth even more than the time that it took.

I decided I'd changed my mind about home. Home was not Pensacola San Diego Guam or any of the other places we might have lived. In fact home wasn't any particular place at all. Home was my family. Even if they didn't get my jokes sometimes.

The only true death is to never live.

Putain Public (reference to Elizabeth I- means public whore)

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that its quite conscious.

they say if you smile when you think of people who are gone, you loved them.

Cyn? Short for Cynric? (Callie) Nay. S-I-N. As in conceived, born in, and am currently living happily in. (Sin)

Callie. (Sin) Aye. (Callie) Can you teach me what love is? (Sin)

Yes, that's what I meant to say. If this seems a bit circular to you, well, it is, but it has deep meaning.

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss.

Who makes up or invents proverbs? They are so often a crockful of never-mind-what. They pile up platitude upon platitude which the officious and unctuous mouth in and out of season and are taken to be the distillates of wisdom.

I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.

This is the splendid and memorable wisdom of legendary sage Howard Thurman, who once advised someone seeking vocational guidance, "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive" (Gil Bailie, Violence Unveiled, [New York: Crossroad, xv]). Yielding to your sacred inner flame is your best offering to the world.

Justice may be relentless, as Franklin says, but she's also hobbled by rules. That's why I choose vengeance. She's the only mistress I serve.

You really love her, don't you?" Love is too small a word for what I feel. How do I explain that before Kat, nothing was real?... "Yes," I tell Busara. "I love her. Kat's my whole world.

I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert.

We're OConchobhairs and they're our friends. Dad always said that what our name means - friend of the wolves.

I don't think you have talent!! But... I guess Fuuka will do. I have no choice!

Ocurre de vez en cuando: se te viene encima un gran vacío, es como si la misma falta de sentido de la existencia se te metiera dentro y se extendiera como un inmenso y desnudo paisaje.