Quotes About Meaning

It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

You mean the world to me and I'll never stop loving you 'Cause what you have given me I can never repay And if we meet again somehow, I will love you then as now 'Cause you mean the world to me

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

No friendship is an accident.

Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.

If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Words can't express what you mean to me.