Quotes About Meaning

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why.

What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.

If you don't have something worth pursuing then life becomes dull and days become long

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.

I make a film - and once I've made it, everyone comes along and says 'Ah! This is a film that's political, or social', or whatever. But I'm not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn't thinking about exactly what it all meant.

If you listen to my music, you know who I'm talking to, what I'm talking about, and exactly what my message is.

For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.

Reggie - that was on the court. Reginald is the executive.