Quotes About Meaning

You're bigger than I remember, she said stupidly. You too, he said. I also remember that you were beautiful. Memory does play tricks on us. No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore. Come on. Let's go out into the lake.

Just because your former understanding of the purpose of your life is contradicted doesn't mean that you have to decide there is no purpose.

Then he was done. He pulled away, rolled onto his back. "I'm sorry," he said. "You're welcome," she said. She believed in answering what people meant, not what they said.

saying you don't know or care about God is the same as saying you believe he doesn't exist, because if you had even a hope that he existed, you would care very much.

Alai suddenly kissed Ender on the cheek and whispered in his ear, "Salaam." Then, red-faced, he turned away and walked to his own bed at the back of the barracks. Ender guessed that the kiss and the word were somehow forbidden. A suppressed religion, perhaps. Or maybe the word had some private and powerful meaning for Alai alone.

It isn't what he did, Mrs. Wiggin. It's why.

Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses.

The devil?" Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. "Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of God. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was." Jason smiled. "But he meant well.

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true.

The story in my mind is nothing but a hope; the text of the story is the tool I created in order to try to make that hope a reality. The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when you're finally out, you croak.

How could Quing-jao know what the gods meant by anything?

The story of Ender's Game is not this book though it has that title emblazoned on it. The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you. remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

The story, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds... transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears... If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

Everything we do means something.

The prospect of sharing the rest of their lives held no dread for them. . . every word and movement between them carried their history and their future like background movement, shaping each moment even when they weren't aware of it.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about ourself.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.

Tudo o que fazemos tem um significado, Ender concluiu. Eles rirem. Eu não rir.

If our happiness is the purpose of God, … why are so few of us happy?' 'Perhaps he want us to have the happiness that we can only find for ourselves.

You have always been useless. But that doesn't mean you aren't necessary. What do you mean? Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as useful ones.