Quotes About Meaning

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

The language that reveals also obscures.

And so we come to the last crisis, that of integrity versus disgust and despair. Throughout the life-cycle the pieces have been assembled, structure built on structure around the ego's continuity. Now with death not too far away, can it all hold up or will it crumble? Are the links of love and meaning strong enough so that we are ourselves content to fall away.

This habit of using words which have no definite meaning is very convenient to writers, but very much the reverse for readers. [What is Darwinism (New York, 1874), p. 21]

Time has a purpose. The meaning of a sentence becomes clear when we put a period at the end of it. The same applies to life. When

We've lost our ability to see anything sacred or unique in what it means to be human. And we've lost our capacity to believe in anything that we can't measure with our tools. As

It also attracts thousands of others to the faith. Bland secular platitudes, consumer junk, and cheap nihilism feed nobody's soul. These things strangle the heart.

and the lank-jawed, pestiferous prohibitionist flees before the noble throng. All

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

book is intended at least as much

One price of demystifying the universe is that science, unlike religion, asks only how, not why. As to the purpose of things, science is silent. But if science cannot talk about meaning, it can talk about harmony.

it is as it was meant to be...

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or so people, it is time to build a new church. As soon as the congregation gets to the point where you are not on fairly intimate terms with every other person in that church, then you have become a theater where people can attend services. I do not think you can attend a church service. Service is not something which is there to be viewed as if it were a play or a movie.

Dennis Wilson was killed by my shadow because he took my music and changed the words from my soul.