Quotes About Meaning

Love's not some amorphous concept created for books and poetry and not attainable. It's real and vital, and it's necessary. Damn it.

Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for. And maybe what you see at the end of it-if you're looking that far.'

Why? Why am I the one? Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.

Why are you carrying me?" "Well, it didn't seem neighborly to drag you by the hair.

Truce, she decided and held out a hand. When he only stared at her,she gave a quick huff and swallowed another morsel of pride. Please. Trapped by the single word,he took the offered hand. All right. When she would have drawn her hand away, he tightened his grip. Why? I don't know, Gennie told him with fresh impatience. Just a wild urge to see if I can get along with an ogre. At the ironic lift of his brow, she sighed. All right,that was just a quick slip.I take it back.

Love can fade and die. I've seen it. It can grow and build as well. I think when it's real and meant, it can only grow bigger and stronger.

The words weren't so important, Aidan thought. It was just so soothing to listen to her.

One day I looked at him and thought, Why? I mean, we didn't have anything for each other but habit and convenience, and people need more, don't they?

Life's a gift. It doesn't always fit comfortably, but it's precious. I wouldn't have hurt you and your brothers by throwing mine away.

We're meant, she said simply, at least for the time we have.

He brought her no flowers, but she remembered he'd planted a willow tree. He gave her no smooth, clever phrases, but she remembered the look she'd sometimes catch in his eyes. He wasn't a poet, he wasn't a romantic, but that look, that one long, intense look, said more than most women ever heard.

Nothing happens to us without a purpose, little ister. What we do because of it, what we do about it, is the key to who nd what we are.

Nothing happens to us without a purpose, little sister. What we do because of it, what we do about it, is the key to who and what we are.

Tucker, you tell that girl when I offer to have a brandy with a Yankee, that Yankee better drink.

Make your days count. Don't invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.

Damn skippy." "Who is Skippy? Why are you mad at him?" "It's an expression. Like bet your ass." "People

Oh bugger it. You want fancy words? Maybe I could pull some Yeats out or something." "No, no, no." Laughing, she got to her feet, and felt stronger and surer than she'd ever felt before. "I meant it. This is romance, for me, from you. If you could say it just one more time. The three words, the word that matters more than others.

In ways he'll never understand. We have love. He doesn't know what it means. We have love." "I'm marrying a witch." Hauling her off her feet, he circled with her. "I'm a lucky man." "Oh, you really, really are. When?" "When?" "When are we getting married?" "Tomorrow would do me.

Francis Collins put it, "Why would such a universal and uniquely human hunger exists, if it were not connected to some opportunity for fulfillment?

Bertand Russell: "Even when one feels nearest to other people, something in one seems obstinately to belong to God . . . —at least that is how I should express it if I thought there was a God. It is odd, isn't it? I care passionately for this world and many things and people in it, and yet . . . what is it all? There must be something more important one feels, though I don't believe there is.

Jean Paul Sartre: "I needed God . . . I reached out for religion, I longed for it, it was the remedy. Had it been denied me, I would have invented it myself.

Saint Augustine: This former skeptic confessed: "Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee."43 If all men need God, including atheists, then it is unreasonable to conclude there is no God anywhere simply because some people do not find Him.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, The author of this book is mistaken; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3