Quotes About Meaning

we should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day

One of the most important things we can do for a suffering person is to restore a sense of meaning or significance to the experience.

Cuál es el significado de la vida?», le preguntó el estudiante al rabino. El rabino respondió: «Esa es una pregunta maravillosa, ¿por qué la quiere cambiar por una respuesta?»

Christianity offers the further insight that true fulfillment comes, not through ego satisfaction, but through service to others.

Why are we here? God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served.

Civilisation once looked to art as the means of passing wisdom from one generation to the next. Writing itself was invented in part to convey the sacred: permanent things deserved a permanent place, hence the hieroglyphs on Egyptian tombs. But a modern civilisation that no longer believes in permanent things, one that accepts no certain narrative of meaning, resorts to deconstruction, not construction.

Por todo esto y mucho más deberíamos estar viviendo un amanecer de gran promesa. Pero ahora que somos más libres para disfrutar la vida, estamos profundamente decepcionados de que la libertad y la comodidad, que buscamos con tan profundo deseo, no le da significado ni propósito a nuestra vida.

Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.

He had not come primarily to heal the world's cells, but to heal its souls.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things . . . as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

by embracing grief and standing beside the hurting person, we can indeed aid another's search for meaning.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred.

Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

Learn you to die!" means consider how your death is meaningful, as your life is meaningful.

If it means something to you,then take it to heart. If it means nothing, it means nothing, let it go.

Without substantial institutional resources, it is difficult for long-term chronic users to figure out how to pass the time of day. They have to construct a new personal sense of meaning and dignity. Instead, they often fall back on their more familiar and persuasive righteous dopefiend ways of being in the world, and they seek out old drug-using friends and acquaintances.

Does the difference matter? someone else asked. Does it matter whether the law seeks to protect you because you are an individual or because of the group of which you happen to be a member? That question floated around the room, and it has remained with me ever since.

Nombres est écrit avant mai 1968, coïncidence improbable mais profonde.

They labor quietly, endure privations and pains, live and die, and throughout everything see the good without seeing the vanity. I had to love these people. The more I entered into their life, the more I loved them; and the more it became possible for me to live, too. It came about not only that the life of our society, of the learned and of the rich, disgusted me—more than that, it lost all semblance of meaning in my eyes.

A)rt is like bread, an essential ingredient for nourishing the soul.

Al Hickey: It's not about anything. Frank Boggs: Yeah, it's about four hundred grand