Quotes About Meaning

Where was God when it happened? He was there making it happen, for the glory of his name and the good of his elect. And if he was not there, it could never have happened.

If there is an objective standard that determines the meaning of goodness, then we should discover what it is, and set forth the method of knowing such a standard of goodness.

Actions require words to speak for them, explaining their origins and implications, or else they remain silent.

Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.

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To me, that book has been both a revelation and a gospel.

One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.

Acontece-lhe, às vezes, Théo, de ficar apaixonado? Eu gostaria que isto lhe acontecesse, pois, creia-me, as "pequenas misérias" também têm seu valor.

Cerchiamo di non dimenticare, carissimo, che le piccole emozioni sono le grandi guide della nostra vita e che ad esse obbediamo senza saperlo.

There are certain times when it is far from clear to us that art should be something sacred or good.

Art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man's soul"_Page.268

Ciò che più parla nelle parole è il silenzio.

A vida só se dá para quem se deu.

I call myself a wordkeeper, or a keeper of words. I enjoy words and looking at them on all sides… Words are magnificent… They form rhythms of living in meaningful prose… It is the force of my desire, my wish to make myself understood, that powers these words.

We are here," I said, "just to stagger on. To be nice to each other. To be kind. That's all there is to it. Life is," I went on, warming to my theme, "one big mystery. If you ask what it means you just waste time when you could be making someone else's life happier.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

That complete statement which is literature.

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.