Quotes About Meaning

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

For language is by no means a perfect vehicle of meanings. Words, like currency, are turned over and over again, to evoke one set of images to-day, another to-morrow. There is no certainty whatever that the same word will call out exactly the same idea in the reader's mind as it did in the reporter's.

existentialist

Anything one man does that another man understands can be defined as language

There is no true event only a series of occurrences open to interpretation. -Mosley-

In reconstructing African civilisations, the concern is to indicate that African social life had meaning and value, and that the African past is one with which the black man in the Americas can identify with pride.

Fools should not have chapping sticks'; that is, weapons of offence.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

If you want to find deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the beliefs that have been handed to you. You have to go to that place within yourself.

Once what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant whether you're happy or unhappy. You are content—you are not alone in your Spirit—you belong.1

Living as If Your Life Makes a Difference

Opinions are of very little value by themselves. It is only what we do with them that makes any difference in the world.

You must teach people to find meaning in their suffering, and in so doing they will be able to turn their personal tragedies into personal triumphs.

Haz un inventario de tu vida y dale un propósito.

It is so hard to define the "unlabelable" part of you, but once you do, it's incredibly powerful. Call it the soul or spirit or whatever—you discover that the invisible part of you really determines everything about your life.

La obra maestra más grande y gloriosa del hombre es cómo vivir con un propósito».

look into your heart and examine what is truly important.

To me, the word responsibility means "responding with ability." It doesn't mean responding with disability, otherwise the word would be respondisability. No, it is responsibility: I have the ability to respond. I can respond with ability.

We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is divine Love, and that is infinite.

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life" (John 6:63).

This is the kind of silence that connects us in a way that words never could.

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.