Quotes About Meaning

Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dess? I though that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. "We must see all scars as beauty. OKay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on dying. A scar means, I survivied.

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar maker wants us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar doesnot form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

If I were you," Tom said, "I should stick to reading, writing and arithmetic." "But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?" Tom held up his hands. "I'm sorry, you're losing me." Mary exhaled smoke. "Possibly I am.

I suppose all of us have to look at our job and ask how it now serves the cause I suppose one is lucky if a simple answer presents itself.

The longer I wait the more reasons I can think of why it means something other than what I thought it meant when I first read it.

I think when you're dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can't let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

Everyone wants to believe in something that will make their mundane lives more bearable and their inevitable death less … final.

The big difference between the twentysomething and sixtysomething generations is a sense of time. The young believe they have plenty of time, while for older workers time is precious. "Time is running short, and many boomers want work that also offers purpose," says Marc Freedman. "They too want work that gives meaning.

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

Naturalism was never the point.

You shrunk and bottled in a glass jar, you're a portable saint. Knowing you is like knowing Jesus. There are billions of us and only one of you so I don't expect much from you personally. There are no answers to my life. But I'm touched by you and fulfilled just by believing.

It's better than sex. Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill -- getting larger cause you're entering another person's language, cadence, heart and mind.

But intersubjectivity in the text occurs through intertextuality, when distinctions between original and citation become blurred.

Art supercedes what's personal.

I thought its problem was the same problem many Jews have in wanting to "place" the Holocaust, to find some meaning or redemption. An end to rootless cosmopolitanism.

Pero la psicología moderna nos dice que los individuos sanos y felices también tienen un profundo sentido de propósito. Es decir, representan valores apreciados, se sienten conectados con otras personas y están al servicio de causas más nobles que ellos mismos y sus egos.

Las peores organizaciones ofrecen un sueldo, pero espiritualmente están en bancarrota y son perfectamente incapaces de proporcionarnos la alegría, la satisfacción o la paz que encontramos, por ejemplo, en nuestras familias y tradiciones espirituales.

Ahora las preguntas claves son más profundas y más retadoras: ¿quién soy? ¿Para qué estoy en este mundo? ¿Qué tipo de persona voy a ser? Es posible que yo desempeñe muchos trabajos durante mi carrera, pero a medida que paso de uno a otro –incluso de una compañía o profesión a otra–, ¿qué queda? Quedo yo.

The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.

Only the very ugly is truly beautiful, and if the printed word has any meaning, then it must come from the very edge of fucky-bum-boo-boo

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

She seeks meaning in this, but it is simply that which is immeasurable.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.