Quotes About Meaning

La santé est une façon d'aborder l'existence en se sentant non seulement possesseur ou porteur, mais aussi au besoin, créateur de valeur, instaurateur de normes vitales.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

In the end, writing arises when man realizes that memory is not enough.

Everything always comes down to language in the end.

Love is a word used so freely that it's lost a lot of its meaning,

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

It is only by selection, by elimination, and by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things.

I do not like the idea of happyness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happyness.

Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.

The cliche is dead poetry.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

There are three meanings of bearing love: to endure it, to carry it, and to bring it forth.

If they want to kill us so desperately, then surely we are worthwhile, valid, of importance to the world.

Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

Quality is value to some person.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

I fear the line between myself and madness is as fine these days as a cobweb, and I have seen what it means when a soul crosses over into that dim and wretched place.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.

A useless life is an early death.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning. . . . We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power.