Quotes About Meaning

Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

The only meaning of death is how I live my life now and what I will have to look back upon as I lie dying.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

Many of us are so busy texting and tweeting that we barely have time for meeting and musing. Where are we supposed to get the meaning?

Culture derives its meaning from man's faith in God; it is never an end in itself, but always a means of expressing one's religious faith.

In his separation from God in whose light alone man can see the truth, man lost his catholicizing spirit- he no longer (apart from regeneration) is able to see the meaning in life and view it as a whole. His culture was fragmentized. Man sees only a part reality, but he does not see its relation as a whole, nor does he ascend from the creature to the Creator. In his apostasy, man has fallen in love with the cosmos or some aspect of reality, and he worships the creation instead of the Creator.

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to. I don't want to kill myself. I still want to listen to Charlie Parker and sit in a room alone at four in the morning. There are moments to live for. There are times, hours slammed together, that are definitely worthwhile. It's all the other hours, minutes and unendurable expanses of time that drag me by my collarbone slowly through the mindlessness of their blank words.

In the place of the things I have denied myself, I have things that mean more to me than sex, fun and happiness ever could.

Music makes life possible.

Without awe, life is flatline.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

True Tenacity is in the Uncovering of the Purpose of Existence Rather than in the Pursuit of Existence.

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.