Quotes About Meaning

Guard your dragon with your life Eragon, for without her life is hardly worth living.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Respondents who say that they want to find purpose and meaning in life also rate public-interest goals high in importance. Self-interest and materialist goals are unrelated to public-interest goals or to the desire to find purpose and meaning in life.

Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.

Sometimes, I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart, and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

He breathed in and felt that the air existed, certainly, as it circulated in and filled out two lunglike shapes, but what did that mean? One could have an entire face - something he wasn't sure he had right now - and still not exist.

The search for meaning is an illusion of logic and a requirement of the middleclass for predictable breeding space.

If you think the goal of life is to impress someone with your possessions or looks or intelligence or... then you are not living - - you are a circus act.

When you "spell" a word correctly, you are in effect casting a spell, charging these abstract, arbitrary symbols with meaning and power.

The Norse runes and the Hebrew alphabet are simple letters for spelling words, but also deep symbols of cosmic significance. This magical sense is preserved in our word for teaching children how to manipulate letters to make words: spelling. When you "spell" a word correctly, you are in effect casting a spell, charging these abstract, arbitrary symbols with meaning and power.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

well in that case lets get this knight right. it means to understand him.

Looking back on one's life, you see that love was the answer to everything.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

The symbolism of this strange episode remains obscure until, in the New Testament, Jesus explains it to Nicodemus:

As Paul says in Philippians 1:21, God doesn't just want to be "a part" of our lives, He wants to be our very life itself.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

Hay una diferencia abismal entre querer morir y no querer vivir de determinada forma

Aku hanya mampu memberikan sedikit,tetapi besar artinya bagi mereka.

Time has a way of putting things in perspective, of assigning meaning.