Quotes About Meaning

How could any theologian explain the meaning of Christian identity in America and fail to engage white supremacy, its primary negation?

It's better to be sick of life than not have a life.

We can't exist and then not-exist, otherwise all we do or try to do would be so pointless.

Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in.

Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.

The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

Meaning is invisible, but the invisible is not contradictory of the visible: the visible itself has an invisible inner framework, and the in-visible is the secret counterpart of the visible. —M. Merleau-Ponty, Working Notes

For any one of us, child or adult, the question eclipsing all others is: How does what comes with you to the world find a place in the world? How does my meaning fit with the meanings to which I am asked to conform? What helps growing down?

This sentence, "I love you," parroted back and forth by child and parent may have a subtext that means many things, but it definitely does not mean love, for when you love someone you are filled with fantasies, ideas, and anxieties.

Am reuÈ™it s? scoatem pl?cerea din viziunea noastr? asupra vieÈ›ii: frumuseÈ›ea vieÈ›ii a devenit irelevant? pe lâng? sensul ei.

Pentru c? asta lipseÈ™te azi în vieÈ›ile multor oameni È™i asta trebuie noi s? recuper?m: sentimentul unei chem?ri intime, personale È™i un sens al vieÈ›ii.

Dar pretinde, în schimb, c? exist? un motiv pentru care orice persoan? se afl? aici, acum, È™i c? exist? misiuni ce trebuiesc îndeplinite dincolo de rutina zilnic? È™i care confer? semnificaÈ›ie rutinei zilnice, sentimentul c? întreg universul vrea cumva ca persoana mea s? existe È™i c? sunt rodul unei imagini apriorice pe care doar o completez cu am?nuntele biografiei mele.

Noi suntem inventaÈ›i pe m?sur? ce ne tr?im viaÈ›a, deÈ™i evenimentele aleatorii ale zilelor noastre nu par s? urmeze un curs coerent. Firul narativ iese la iveal? abia la momentul reamintirii. Copil?ria are sens doar când privim retrospectiv. Doar atunci când privim retrospectiv, printre crengile arborelui, vedem realitatea ghindei.

explained Conway, "is a slang word meaning a lazy fellow, a good-for-nothing.

Rutherford assented. "Yes, I liked him a good deal too, though I also saw surprisingly little of him, if you measure it in time." And then there was a somewhat odd silence, during which it was evident that we were both thinking of some one who had mattered to us far more than might have been judged from such casual contacts.

Life is not about who you are or what you are, it's about how you make a positive difference to the world.

I believe you are meant to be loved, with a love that was more than love.

Some days I'm sad, Some days 'I'm happy and some days I'm depressed and don't know who I am. But I know I'm here for a reason.

Give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in hopelessness, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road scattered with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.

We have one life, that is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to give up who you are without living, there will only be painful nothingness in your life.

Even if things don't happen the way you expected, don't be downhearted or give up. Believe, that whatever good or bad may come your way you can give it meaning and transform it into something better.

Those who look behind will never see that life is a life of purpose.

No response is a response, and it's a powerful one. Remember that.

No response is a response, and it's a powerful one. Remember that.