Quotes About Meaning

All we truly have of days we live are the memories we make of them.

He gave me the strength to see passed all that is trivial in this world and to focus on that which matters most.

Just surviving isn't living.

Sometimes I wonder if The Philosophy really was more of a curse placed upon me than a gift.

Whatever does bring you to faith is good and divine.

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

Words are not heavy. It does not take more than one of you to carry my reply.

A silver speaks it's own language, does it not?

Age was no guide then, nor is it now. The old and the young defy their endings, while others go too soon. Neither is it good or evil in the veins that seems to protect them. This is a brief and bitter life, the mere proving crucible for what lies beyond. That is all that makes sense of it, or I would rage at the heavens themselves.

As Gandhi put it, "Those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion really means.

Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk, speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble of all these syllables a single word before the purpose of speech is gone.

Music I heard with you was more than music. And bread I broke with you was more than bread.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

Finally, don't be fooled by words like orientate or commentate, misguided back-formations from orientation and commentator; orient and comment do the job just fine. Don't use big words to gloss over the truth or to pump air into ideas.

If all of this seems paradoxical, get used to it. Language is paradox.

There is no meaning to life unless there is commitment and love.

Priveau de departe spre imparatia mortii si a vesniciei, catre care se indreptau. Un mers pe pamant, dar care se sfarseste in vesnicie, caci el nu se intreapta catre un scop pamantesc, catre un obiect ori o fiinta, ci spre un lucru care se afla dincolo.

Um dos sentidos evidentes de nossos tempos é que o sentido do presente é procurado muito mais no futuro do que no passado.

a especialidade do psicoterapeuta é buscar entender como valorizar a vida concreta sem precisar de uma transcendência. Ou seja, sem recorrer a valores externos à vida concreta do paciente.

o que mais nos faz sofrer talvez seja justamente a relevância excessiva que atribuímos à nossa presença no mundo, pois essa relevância é a pedra de fundação de todas nossas obstinadas repetições, é graças a ela que insistimos em ser sempre "iguais a nós mesmos" (sendo que, no caso, essa expressão não tem um sentido positivo).

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

To respond to the question of the meaning of life by simply reproducing yourself is to shift the question to the next generation. To not respond at all, or to not even try, isn't that the worst kind of cowardice?