Quotes About Meaning

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

She needed to hear the reminder, the reminder that there was more to this life than her heart. Even if it could never be mended completely. She had her soul. She had the Hereafter. She had her faith.

Love is life. If you don't love and you're not loved then you're not living.

Chiar dac? Dumnezeu nu exist?, s? tr?im ca ?i cum ar exista.

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you.

Many people chase after success. Others pursue money. But I think the happiest people on earth Are the one's who have found significance. The real question of life must be What has significance for you

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt.

The chaos that scared the others away is what makes me yearn to stay.

are not truly real in the consciousness of human experience until they are unraveled and correlated, until their relevant facts actually become meaning through encircuitment in the thought streams of mind.

But couldn't he burn the twaddle instead of straining it. The story of the man who uses a Bunsen burner to singe from his lips the words with which a story might otherwise have been told.

Now the purpose of her stories had changed. She spun them to discover their meaning. In the telling, she found, you reached a point where you could not go back, where—as the stories changed—it transformed you, too.

I think . . . you should have children, John." At least he's no longer talking about bugs. "I'm too young, Dad." "It's the most important thing . . . I've done in . . . my life.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Es ist dieses Bild, mit dem ich lebe, sagte Dahlem, dieser vor den Flammen in den Tod springende Mann. Das Etui erinnert mich nicht nur an mein gerettetes Leben, sondern auch an den Tod des anderen. Der Splitter ist der blinde, sinnlose Zufall Leben.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Hope does not consist of expecting things to turn out well, it consists of hoping that it will make sense

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

NadÄ›je prostÄ› není optimismus. Není to pÃ…â"¢esvÄ›d?ení, že nÄ›co dobÃ…â"¢e dopadne, ale jistota, že má nÄ›co smysl – bez ohledu na to, jak to dopadne.