Quotes About Meaning

More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.

everything to do with women is foolish and, therefore, absolutely essential.

They have a saying, the Basque. That just because the cat has kittens in the oven, it doesn't make them biscuits.

You collect things as you go—the things you think are important—and soon they weigh you down until you realize that these things you cared so much about mean nothing at all. Our natures are our natures." He grunted. "And they are all we are left with.

The Basquos have an old proverb, 'a life without friends means death without company.

I wanted to talk to her about Virgil's prophecy.

The truth for a novelist isn;t the same as the facts . . . When a writer is successful in using a story taken from experience, it is not told exactly the way it happened, but in the way that reveals, through all one's beliefs, hopes, and fear, how the event should have happened.

Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.

There's no such thing as God, Charlie, at least not how they say.

Eleanor Roosevelt would have said curiosity. As she declared in 1934, "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."45 Indeed, recent research has linked curiosity to happiness, satisfying relationships, increased personal growth, increased meaning in life, and increased creativity

to fear God means to honor and respect Him in every decision we make. When we fear the Lord, we have a reverence for Him that moves us to obey His Word.

I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.

Poetry by its very nature is subversive . . . It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades of gray. Never trust a poet.

To live your life even half right seems extraordinary.

But it was only a word—justice. It was only a concept, and it wasn't enough.

I thought suddenly, what is the meaning of all these things? All these bags and bags I've been packing? We could take everything we have with us. We could take every single thing that every single person in the world has ever had. But not of it would mean anything to me. Because no matter how much I took and no no matter how much I had for the rest of my life, I didn't have him anymore. I could have piled everything from here straight to heaven. None of it was him.

But it was only a word- justice. It was only a concept, and it wasn't enough.

they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes. ...If a person learns to enjoy and find meaning in the ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself, the burden of social controls automatically falls from one's shoulders.

But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers.

To hang on through loss, I need to hang on to a throughline.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

It's hard to believe the old saying that "things happen for a reason" when the things happening to you are god-awful and you just want them to be over with. No matter how I looked at it, I just couldn't wrap my head around the idea that this had happened for some reason that made any sense.