Quotes About Meaning

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we're doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

When you grow tired of being what you're not, go and have fun and celebrate life... In time, you'll discover that it will give you more than pleasure, it will give you meaning.

El amor no está en el otro, está dentro de nosotros mismos; nosotros lo despertamos. Pero para que despierte necesitamos del otro. El universo sólo tiene sentido cuando tenemos con quién compartir nuestras emociones.

No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

Everything in the universe has life and you must always try to sty in contact with that life. It understands your language and the world will begin to take on a different meaning for you.

It would harm me more to be living a life without meaning. In a war, everyone knows they're experiencing something important.

Are the latter aware of their limitations, and do they know that life is short and wonder what point there is in going on?

Words are born in thought, leaving lips, they acquire soul in the ears, yet sometimes this auditory magic does not make it as far as the mouth because it is swallowed dry.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much! (Buck, 57)

The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything—or nothing.

Why must this happen to me?" To this there could be no answer and there was none. When I knew at last that there could never be an answer, my own resolve shaped into the determination to make meaning out of the meaningless, and so provide the answer, though it was of my own making.

The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That's happiness.

There should be a deep attachment, heart should be tied to heart between parent and child, for unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he will never learn how to love anyone else profoundly, and not knowing how to love means the loss of the meaning of life and its fulfillment.

Be proud of your child, accept him as he is and do not heed the words and stares of those who know no better. This child has a meaning for you and for all children. You will find a joy you cannot now suspect in fulfilling his life for and with him.

For this Mary's words were not surcharged with oversubtle meaning. No, she spoke them out swiftly and with sharp clearness and each word had its own weight and meaning and no more, good tools of her mind, but not messengers of vague suggestion.

It seemed so strange, so endless, this turning of some hidden wheel, this passing on of link caught onto link in some never ending chain that she was dazed with thinking of it even dimly, since she was not one to think into the meanings of what passed before her, but only taking all that came for what it was.

And what was worship except trust and hope that life and death had meaning because they were created and planned by Heaven?

Come possono quei rozzi stampi che sono le parole contenere l'essenza e lo spirito dell'amore?

It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.

Toda la vida te voy a agradecer esa pregunta. Es como si me estuvieras pidiendo la mano. Ella rió al decir esto, y enseguida agregó con demacrada seriedad: No juegues conmigo niño, mira que me lo puedo tomar en serio.

When we stop seeking the familiarity of samsara, when we stop fighting the groundlessness of freedom from imputed meaning, emptiness becomes an experience of awe, of the infinite, of limitless pace.