Quotes About Meaning

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

The rose called by any other name would smell as sweet.

Gabriel Well...life is stranger than fiction sometimes.

Love is the highest and best use of a life.

But what is the soul? Some say it is the self, the "I" that inhabits the body; without the soul, the body is like a lightbulb with no electricity. But it is more than the engine of life, say others; it is what gives life meaning and purpose. Soul is the fingerprint of God.

The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.

Genuine contentment is found in performing tasks that take us out of ourselves, for a purpose greater than ourselves. Only when the personality is subordinated to a higher goal do we attain the serenity we are looking for.

Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated their intentions may not be fully reliable sources, and because we inevitably see things from our own points of view, think twice before you attribute intention to the artist [...].

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

Technically he was right, Jarel knew. So why should it seem so important?

People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.

The pother about the Visitation had no more relevance to the bishop's coming than the smell of hot women that was constantly in her nostrils had anything to do with the sun's journey overhead.

But words must be found, for besides words there is almost nothing.

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

In the beginning was the Word", and the meaning of that designation is just this, that God has made Himself intelligible to us in a Person, not in a book.

That's the way with sentimental things: it's the memory the junk conjures that's valuable, not the junk itself.

Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestleWith words and meanings. The poetry does not matter.

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult.… The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

Against the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silent Word.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

I'll convert you!Into a stew.A nice little, white little, missionary stew!

Could it be that we allow the conditions in our lives to distract us from the meaning of our lives?