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Quotes About Meaning

There is no impulse more rational than love. It makes life more bearable for the lover and the loved one
~ Unknown
The Artwork as Misunderstanding There is a crisis with regard to Representation. They are looking for Meaning as if it was a thing. As if it was a girl, required to take her panties off as if she would want to do so, as soon as the true interpreter comes along. As if there was something to take off.
~ Marlene Dumas
They're looking for meaning as if it were a Thing. As if it were a Girl, required to take her panty off, as if she would want to do so as soon as the true interpreter comes along. As if there were something to take off.
~ Marlene Dumas
Artwork is not synonymous to intention. It is peculiar that although almost everybody says artworks don't give answers, they seem to be sure that a good work asks questions. It sounds like the other side of the same coin to me.
~ Marlene Dumas
I can see why many visual artists dislike words in artworks. They feel that words dirty the clear water that has to reflect the sky. It disturbs the pleasure of the silent image, the freedom from history, the beauty of nameless forms. (...) I know that neither images nor words, can escape the drunkenness and longing caused by the turning of the world. Words and images drink the same wine. There is no purity to protect.
~ Marlene Dumas
I want my life to mean something!
~ Unknown
Her ÅŸeyin bir amac? vard?r. Hiçbir ÅŸey rastlant?sal, anlams?z ya da yanl?? deÄŸildir. Sadece yanl?? anlamalar ve ölümlü insana henüz aç?klanmam?? s?rlar vard?r.
~ Marlo Morgan
Rastaman don't deal with negativity so oppression is now downpression even though there is no up in the word. Dedicate is livicate, I and I, well God knows what that means, but it sounds like somebody trying for their own holy trinity but forgetting the name of the third person.
~ Marlon James
Y dijo: ¿sabes por qué me llaman Chistoso? Porque nunca estoy pa bromas.
~ Marlon James
Stop talking about truth - I fed you truth all along, but as I said before, what you want is story.
~ Marlon James
Trusting God makes life worth living.
~ Unknown
It is impossible for us to be fully alive without God at the center of our lives.
~ Unknown
Did you really mean what you said?" she asked softly. "If God Himself were waiting at Gloucester, you would not relinquish me?" He did not meet her gaze, but the muscles in his arms bunched beneath her hands as he pulled her close again. "I meant it, he whispered, burying his lips in her hair.
~ Unknown
It is hard to be happy without a life worth living. This is a fundamental tenet of DBT. Of course, all lives are worth living in reality. No life is not worth living. But what is important is that you experience your life as worth living—one that is satisfying, and one that brings happiness.
~ Unknown
Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
~ Marsha Norman
Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.
~ Marsha Norman
I was struck by the crucial role of language and our use of words. I have
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
And I want him to know the subtle, sneaky, important reason why he was born a human being and not a chair.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
The answers were never about money. They were always about happiness, relationships, following dreams, and meaning.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
What in my life is worth keeping?" The
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Did I do my best to be happy? • Did I do my best to find meaning? • Did I do my best to have a healthy diet? • Did I do my best to be a good husband?
~ Marshall Goldsmith
One recurring theme was to "reflect upon life, to find happiness and meaning now," not next month or next year.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
~ Marshall McLuhan
I said his name softly to myself. Lucky. Lucian Radcliffe. His name must come from the Latin lucianus, meaning light, and that's what he was, golden and bright. I didn't care what Jack's name meant. Probably Jackass.
~ Unknown