Quotes About Meaning

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

I'm into the true meaning of Christmas - Faith, Family, and Facial hair.

I collect jewelry for a story - so something I got on a trip or something I got from my family. You know it always needs to have a meaning for me.

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Gabriel: What's the point of having power, if one cannot use it? What's the point of immortality, if one cannot truly live?

It's all short, sweet and simple, but it's all a moment's worth.

Merkabah is translated as either meaning the throne of god or chariot. Both definitions imply a means of spiritual ascension, not a physical one. They only have it partly right.

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?

When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given.