Quotes About Meaning

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

To me, having 'material' for an essay means not only having something to write about but also having something interesting and original to say about whatever that might be.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

There are some people that look at faith as a part of their life, and there are those like me that look at faith as the essence of their life. I look at all things through my faith.

When lines are great, they're easy to do. You just find the essence of it, and you do it.

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

I think in order to have eternal life, you have to have a soul, and the soul of the show is that we all really did love each other. I think that really came across.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.

We need to look carefully at what we value, what we have, and what we desire to make sure these are really important to us and represent what we truly want.

Who am I who sits here? What is it that I want?

Who am I? is not a question about your job or bank balance. Don't be satisfied with rational or formal answers. Ask yourself seriously and honestly, again and again, and, sooner or later, you'll hear the voice of your soul. The true answer will come to you, breaking through the thick curtain of your ego, which is made up of your name, job, personality, and similar things.

Those who create everyday with the goal of the completion of their souls are true artists of life.

Who are you? Who do you wish to be?Why do you live? Why do you want to live? The answers to these questions are all yours to make.

We all have a divine nature, and we have a thirst to become one with that divinity. That divinity lets us find meaning in life event at the pinnacle of happiness, lets us weep for the pain and sorrow of others, and lets us dream of a more beautiful world. (p. 154)

In life, we chase things like money and status, but there things have no lasting value relative to the soul. Only the soul has absolute value, which is why I believe it should be at the center of everyone's life

Who Am I? Why am I here?

Whatever the path that brought you here There is a reason why you came, Though you may not realize it now. Therefore,please open your ears. Listen to the message that Sedona has for you. The old juniper standing tall in the golden sunset just might tell you the reason.

Thomas Merton expresses the need for this mystical imperative: The Christian's vision of the world ought, by its very nature, to have in it something of poetic inspiration. Our faith ought to be capable of filling our hearts with a wonder and a wisdom which see beyond the surface of things and events, and grasp something of the inner and "sacred" meaning of the cosmos which, in all its movements and all its aspects, sings the praises of its Creator and Redeemer.2

The experience that the God we meet in prayer and in history actually loves us indicates, as we have seen, that we make a difference to the eternal God. The hope, then, is that nothing good is lost. Even though each and every accomplishment we achieve will eventually become space dust, and that dust may itself dissipate into cold cosmic darkness, we hope that God will not let our efforts turn to nothing. We hope and we sense that all is preserved in God

to be human is to have "a ceaseless drive toward meaning and truth…there is a dynamic thrust to the human intellect that constantly presses toward the fullness of meaning and truth in the Absolute."18

Why a raven?" "To honor my father." "The writing under it, is that Cyrillic?" "Yes." "What does it say?" "Dar Vorona. Gift of the Raven. I am my father's gift." "The raven is holding a bloody sword." "I never said it was a nice gift.

There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

Staying alive just to stay alive isn't enough.