Quotes About Meaning

Well, don't act so morose. It's not as if it's your execution!" "I know." "Then smile, because if it's not your execution, you should be happy!

Happiness, Eragon had decided, was a fleeting, futile thing to pursue. Contentment, on the other hand, was a far more worthwhile goal.

These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

We will carry your message. May your swords stay sharp, said Brom. And yours.

How am I supposed to know which religion is the true religion? he wondered. Just because someone follows a certain faith does not necessarily

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Because they believe it contains deep truths about life, the universe, and everything.

her father's side—had been prone to saying, which was that ". . . the meaning of life, Kira, is moving things from point a to point b. That's it. That's all we really do." "But what about when we talk?" she had said, not entirely understanding. "That's just moving an idea from in here," and he tapped her on the forehead, "out into the real world.

By our actions we increase entropy of the Universe. By our entropy, we seek salvation from the coming dark.

En una ocasión me preguntaste qué veía yo entre las estrellas. Te respondí que veía preguntas. Pero ahora te veo a ti. Nos veo a nosotros.

Meaning comes from purpose.…

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

Why am I talking about all this? Who am I talking to? I send out these words, these thoughts, simply because it is time. Time for what, I do not know and it does not matter because it is what I want and that is always reason enough for me.

Krishna means love, she said. But Radha means longing. Longing is older than love. I am older than he. Did you know that, Sita?

It's because you weren't in love, Mary said. When you're in love it's beautiful. When you're not it's just dirty filthy sex. Loveless sex has no true spiritual meaning deep inside your soul. But love makes everything totally cool. Love is God's special gift to horny teenage girls and boys. It makes them feel less guilty.

Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It wasn't so long ago that I was alive, you see. I was only eighteen. I had my whole life in front of me. Now I suppose you could say I have all of eternity before me. I'm not sure exactly what that means yet. I'm told everything's going to be fine. But I have to wonder what I would have done with my life, who I might have been. That's what saddens me most about dying--that I'll never know.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult," he said, "but because it wishes to be art.

A great deal has been written on the question of how to motivate industrial workers. Presumably such literature arises because so many jobs have been made so trivial that few people can find any meaning at all in them.

It was the sort of work that gave meaning to life.

A great deal has been written on the question of how to motivate industrial workers. Presumably such literature arises because so many jobs have been made so trivial that few people can find any meaning at all in them. It may be that techniques of management alone can't cure the problem. But clearly, for even the most potentially interesting jobs to be meaningful, there must be managers who are willing to throw away the management handbooks and take some risks.

Ask yourself, what are the values that I wish to live my life by?

If you knew the world was about to end, what would you say? Or maybe the question should be, if this world was going to end, whom would you tell?

Hanara did not yet feel he'd reached long-life. It was a state, slaves said, where you felt satisfied you have lived long enough. Where you didn't feel cheated if you died. You might not have had an easy life, or a happy one, but you'd had your measure. Or you had made a difference to the world, even a small one, because you had existed.

Communication, for