Quotes About Meaning

People clamor to tell their stories in words. This doesn't make them writers, Nor does it make their stories matter.

Some kisses are gentle and simply social; no more than a greeting, a brush on the cheek. Some exist only as a prelude to other activities. But our first kiss had a life and a meaning of its own. I felt that it marked the beginning of something important.

Think of happiness as a state of inner liberty. That is exactly what it is. It is never anything else. It will help if you forget the word happiness altogether. Substitute the term inner liberty. It works favorably upon your thinking habits. It connects inner liberty with the genuine meaning of happiness. And that puts you on the right track.

Spider names look silly. But this ''Accord'' group is a young culture. Their names are still mostly meaningful in their daily language.

The things one wants the most are not things after all.

When there's time for everything, there's value in nothing.'

meaning, creativity, flexibility, and a sort of rapid prototyping not just of jobs but of entire careers.

We take our identity and our self-worth from our jobs.

Values are the chosen limits that allow our lives to deepen rather than dissipate.

put your life in service to your values rather than putting your time in service to money.

Passion, pain, what's at hand—these are doorways to finding a purpose beyond material acquisition.

The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition.

We need religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, art for art's sake.

Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Le suicide n'est qu'une solution individuelle; pas socialiste par conséquent.

pues son las situaciones adversas las que ponen a prueba el significado de la felicidad y la capacidad del individuo para encajarlas en su propia vida.

No hacen falta muchas razones para mostrar que la vida buena tiene más valor que la buena vida

What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew that we couldn't scrub poetry off our bodies. And we ourselves feared the greatest death, which was writing merely competent poems.

That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language.