Quotes About Meaning

Nomi flinched. "You caught his attention. You are a Grace. Congratulations." Nomi's tears spilled, burning her cheeks. "I didn't want this. This wasn't a prize, Serina. We should have a choice!" "This was my choice," Serina blazed. "No." Nomi's heart wrenched. "It isn't a choice when you don't have the freedom to say no. A yes doesn't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed!

Say something worth the words.

There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on the body that fade to hard lumps under the skin.

If you can, you can then take risks without "violating" this carefully tended structure of meaning. You can put all of your life at stake, in the service of whatever "designated impossibility" is important to you, because you know all of your life, to date, is meaningless.

It is your job to interpret the dice rolls and give meaning and impact to their results, not just report sports scores.

What does living do to any of us?

That significance is not founded in their historicity but in their theology; not in what happened (or even that something did happen) but in why it happened. What was God doing? That is where the significance is to be found.

No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do.

Mom" didn't feel quite right , Reynie decided. Why not use the Tamil word? He'd heard her refer to her own mother as "Amma," but whether this meant "mom" or "mother," he wasn't sure. Reynie felt a flutter of happy anticipation.

The Purpose of Living is to discover the purpose of living

Christmas is not only where you find it; it's what you make of it.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Pain may well remind us that we are alive, but love reminds us why we are alive.

But there's also all this meaning in there, you know? All this human emotion. Beauty, conflict, joy, dissonance, resolution. He makes it all so clear." "Like a story," Adam says. Beauty, conflict, joy, dissonance, resolution. "Yes," Callum says. "Like a story. You get it.

Startled, he blinked at her. King and queen? But he couldn't — she wasn't — well, she wasn't Sunny. And he'd been in love with one dragon his whole life.

I BEG YOUR PARDON," Tsunami objected. "I can be VERY DIPLOMATIC when I WANT to be.

Moon let herself smile at the fact that fearless, awe-inspiring Tsunami had been the one to bolt, not her.

Want me to drop a mango on her?" Sundew offered. "You have a MANGO?" Swordtail asked indignantly. "No, you acorn. It's a metaphorical mango." "I don't see how metaphorical mangoes are going to do us any good," Swordtail muttered.

I can be a little worried about superstrength," Winter growled. "And whatever that other one can do." "Make bananas," Qibli filled in. "Absolutely terrifying. Run for your life.

Why make her feel so useless — if we're all useless? Because it is real. It has to be. But how can I prove it?

That's … complicated and devious," Qibli said. "Congratulations, you've just summed up NightWings," Winter said to him.

It's like a battle tryin' to find the right words to say at the right time.