Quotes About Meaning

Since so many of us are living so much longer, may we inquire if longevity itself is the goal, or is it something else? Are our lives four times richer, more meaningful, than those who lived in ancient Greece

Who I am, who you are, is the gift.

but she herself embodies their greatest, most therapeutic gift: the message that we are here to be here , to go through it all and to retain our dignity, purpose, and values as best we can.

Spiritual crises happen to us every day. Most of them are sufficiently low grade, devoid of enduring consequences, so we pay no attention and keep on rolling. A spiritual crisis occurs when our identity, our roles, our values, or our road map are substantially called into question, prove ineffective, or are overwhelmed by experience that cannot be contained by our understandings of self and world.

The meaning of the midlife affair is the imperative to go back and pick up what was left behind in one's development. Since what was undeveloped agitates from below consciousness, it is still unknown.

When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look back at your life.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

over the bowls of memory where every hollow holds a hallow

I think he died for me, she answered.

But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.

Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

Unsheathe your dagger definitions; Horseness is the Whatness of All Horse...

Life seemed to him a gift; the statement 'I am alive' seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other things, held up as indubitable, seemed to him uncertain.

Do you feel how profound that is because you are a poet?

Was it right to kiss his mother or wrong to kiss his mother? What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

What did it proft a man to gain the whole world if he lost his soul?

The ballad of joking Jesus, Stephen answered. —O, Haines said, you have heard it before? —Three times a day, after meals, Stephen said drily. —You're not a believer, are you? Haines asked . I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a personal God. —There's only one sense of the word, it seems to me, Stephen said. 21

Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.

Stivenas staiga d?r? nykš?iu ? lango pus? tardamas: -Štai Dievas. -K?? - paklaus? misteris Dyzis. -Šauksmas gatv?je, - g?žtel?j?s pe?iais atsak? Stivenas.

Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire?