Quotes About Meaning

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we overintel-lectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Speech is the small change of silence.

When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.

The soul is awakened through service.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.

Tush! These are trifles, and mere old wives' tales.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair - (Even as you or I!)

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

My word fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Words should be weighed and not counted.