Quotes About Meaning

The earth-meaning Like the sky-meaning Was fulfilled.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Everything makes sense when I'm with you, Tess. My life makes sense, after so many years of running scared in the dark. You are the light, the reason I live. I'm bonded to you deep, woman. For me, there will never be another.

Todo tiene sentido cuando estoy contigo, Tess. Mi vida tiene sentido, después de tantos años de estar huyendo asustado en la oscuridad. Tú eres la luz, mi razón de vivir. Estoy profundamente unido a ti. Para mí, nunca habrá nadie más.

Unless the word "just" had an added meaning of "with the help of magical powers," urging me to "just do" something sounded like telling a person consumed by anxiety to "just calm down" or a clinically depressed person to "just lighten up!

Wow", he rasped. "Do you emasculate all the men, or am I speacial?

It wasn't a kiss, human, so don't get excited." She sputtered in outrage. "I don't know what putting your lips on someone else's mouth means for your people - whatever they are - but humans call that a kiss." "Congratulations, then. You made out with a hellhound.

Criminy. Whatever. Just do something ." "Criminy?" Than stared. "Seriously? Big, bad, Mohawk-haired demon says 'criminy'?" "Yes, criminy." Hades rubbed his bare chest. "And, fuck off.

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.

The First Plot Point of your story is when the story's primary tension—its antagonistic force—makes its initial full frontal appearance in a form that imparts meaning and consequence to the story's hero, and in context to stakes you have already established

Asking God to take her. How does anybody even know what God is? Other than love.

Ever notice how the words I'm sorry always seem the lamest when you want them to mean the most?

As far as I can see, nobody's got The Truth, The Answer, or The God.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

I set out to make sense of my life. And I found out that one's life, particularly after one has written about it, doesn't make sense. Life doesn't make sense.

I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?" He shook his head. "Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.

Whether in the Gospels or other NT writings, the overarching emphasis is on "God's" purposes, all events, claims, and characters (including Jesus) receiving their evaluation and meaning in light of these divine purposes.

God" has now done something in Jesus so important that it represents a surpassing further disclosure of divine purposes, both illuminating the eschatological future and also casting a powerful retroactive light on all "God's" prior actions witnessed to in the OT. Everything is given a new meaning in light of Jesus, and Jesus in turn is the superlative vehicle of divine purposes, the new defining divine action in the light of whom one now can and must understand adequately what "God" means.

That's your problem! No list. We are going to fix that now. Make a list of what is important to you. Write down everything that really matters to you.

Did we really think we could escape the end of philosophy?, W. wonders. Did we really think we could make a philosophy out of the end times, when the end times means: the end of philosophy?

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.