Quotes About Meaning

When you give meaning to your circumstances that weakens you emotionally and mentally, you sabotage your own recovery and eventual happiness. The key is to align your thoughts with God's loving thoughts of you and your circumstances.

You see, happiness cannot be the sole aim of your existense. Happiness is a by-product of a life well lived.

Each thing is created for a purpose. The moment the purpose is achieved, it will perish. This

Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.

Her mother told her about cardinals when she was a child. This bird was symbolic of beauty in the midst of darkness, hope in the midst of sorrow—and her family had certainly seen a fair share of sorrow. Could

The true poem rests between the words.

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends; and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It's good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

Sens s? umbli tot pe contrasens e sensul meu de unic

And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.

Lorsqu'une pensée est trop faible pour porter une expression simple, c'est la marque pour la rejeter

What is it to inhabit a world? How does one make the world one's own? What is it to lose one's world?

Body weight and body-fat percentage have no meaning in isolation for endurance athletes. These variables have meaning only in relation to performance. Weighing 145 pounds is not better than weighing 155 pounds unless you perform better at the lighter weight. A body-fat percentage of 12 is better than a body-fat percentage of 13 only if you're faster at 12 percent.

If this word should turn out to be a 'Te moriturum saluto,' perhaps it will brighten the dark moments a little to think how you have meant to someone more than anything ever has or ever will. What you have striven for will not end in nothing, all that you have done and been will not be wasted, for it will be a part of me as long as I live, and I shall remember, always.

You see, when everything else is gone, there's always work. I don't think anyone ever realises how much work can mean until the other things are gone.

The sound of Kiser's departing car had hardly died away before Romey with a stony glint in the depths of his eyes asked, "Mary Call, how long is temporary?" I said, "Romey, there is the dictionary over there. It's smarter than I am. Ask it.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.

Writing isn't a conveyer belt bearing the reader to "the point" at the end of the piece, where the meaning will be revealed. Good writing is significant everywhere, Delightful everywhere.

Natural" is a word that invites suspicion. It should always present itself in quotation marks, A sign that its meaning is slippery. Humans can justify almost anything by calling it natural. Naturalness is the pervasive myth—the one to root out of your head.

We forget something fundamental as we read: Every sentence could have been otherwise but isn't. We can't see all the decisions that led to the final shape of the sentence. But we can see the residue of those decisions.

Without extraneous words or phrases or clauses, there will be room for implication.