Quotes About Meaning

Untouched by imagination or intellect, great actions become mere activity; it

Veda means originally knowing or knowledge, and this name is given

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don't. It is a dimension of the soul It's not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

I reckon most people that chase money only do it because they don't really know what it is they do want.

What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone's consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.

What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone's consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.

Dad made that up just like he made up the sign over the store. He plays with words until they say what he feels. I guess that makes him a poet.

La otra anciana se llamaba Sa', que significa «estrella», porque su madre miraba el cielo nocturno de otoño, concentrada en las lejanas estrellas, para distraerse de los dolores del parto.

That is to say that at the heart of existence is that double negation, "one can not, not.

the term "merger" should be eliminated from the business vocabulary. There is no such thing. There are only acquisitions.

las metas sin rutinas son deseos, las rutinas sin metas no tienen sentido.

El adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata.

E cunoscut faptul c? umorul, mai mult decât orice alt atribut uman, înlesneÈ™te o anumit? detaÈ™are È™i permite individului s? se ridice deasupra circumstanÈ›elor, fie È™i numai pentru câteva momente.

My mind still clung to the image of my wife. A thought crossed my mind: I didn't even know if she were still alive. I knew only one thing-which I have learned well by now: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived — not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger.

Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

the point is never what we may expect from life but rather what life expects from us

Bir insan?n ac? çekmesi, boÅŸ bir odadaki gaz?n davran???na benzer. BoÅŸ bir odaya belli miktarda gaz verildiÄŸi zaman, oda ne kadar büyük olursa olsun, gaz odan?n tamam?na yay?l?r. Dolay?s?yla insan?n çektiÄŸi ac?n?n 'büyüklüÄŸü' kesinlikle görecelidir.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.