Quotes About Meaning

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

The true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting.

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.