Quotes About Meaning

Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see.

God did not come to do away with suffering; he did not even come to explain it. He came to fill it with his presence.

J'entends Des mots Rapides, uniques, Sans lèvres, sans son, sans sens, Tels que ceux formés par l'esprit qui rêve. Ce lieu n'est point vide, mais il est plein d'âmes.

Il y a une chose plus triste à perdre que la vie, c'est la raison de vivre, Plus triste que de perdre ses biens, c'est de perdre son espérance.

Stories are about endings,' he'd said. 'They don't mean anything unless they come to an end.

As Paul Tillich explains, "Either love is something other than emotion or the Great Commandment is meaningless."6 When

We come to life in the middle of stories that are not ours.

life lived in search of God is real life, the only life worth living.

You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice. And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see, your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment and shining in its endless beauty.

it is the peculiar power of flowers that while they are universal and spread their species over the world, they invoke in each beholder the dearest and most cherished memories.

People are forced by their better judgment to ask very basic questions: Is it possible, how is it possible, to have more meaning and honor in work? to put wealth to some real use? to have a high standard of living of whose quality we are not ashamed? to get social justice for those who have been shamefully left out? to have a use of leisure that is not a dismaying waste of a hundred million adults?

Everyday words are inherently imprecise. They work well enough in everyday life that you don't notice. Words seem to work, just as Newtonian physics seems to. But you can always make them break if you push them far enough.

They all held that man is meant to serve God.

If your theories prove to be a floccinaucinihilipilification." "A flossy…what?" "Sorry. Such an ostentatious, academic word. If your theories prove to be valueless, where are you then?

Una sonrisa es uan boca triste vuelta del revés

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Even when I'm not looking for a meaning one springs naturally to my mind. Do you think it is a disease?

German philosopher Hegel, whose philosophy insisted on the coherence and meaning of history. The

Since I will never write the autobiography I once envisioned—volume one, Who I Was; volume two, I Told You So—writing about travel has become a way of making sense of my life

How can we ultimately fail to twig that the apparent impiety of contemporary art is only ever the inverted image of sacred art, the reversal of the creator's initial question: why is there something instead of nothing?

By the way, who invented Peace?

Ordinary gestures, done with simplicity and purity of heart, take on new meaning

Was that all my love was, all it meant? So light, so easily gone and forgotten? Is solace that simple? And solace is not even the right word: I'm happy.

Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.