Quotes About Meaning

Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term and found it. 'A load of bullshit.

I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

Denn auch Wörter sind magisch. Sie können die ganze Welt enthalten.

Love is where you find the meaning.

And death only happens to people who have been living. There were infinitely more people who had never been alive. I wanted to be one of those people.

Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

Una podía comer en los mejores restaurantes, tomar parte de todos los placeres sensuales, cantar en São Paulo ante veinte mil personas, recibir chaparrones de aplausos, viajar a los confines de la Tierra, tener millones de seguidores en las redes, ganar medallas olímpicas. Pero nada de esto cobraba sentido sin amor.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You got me.

The quiet made her realise how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning.

Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfect intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries, but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

Even these bad experiences are serving a purpose, don't you see?

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You

Mrs Elm studied Nora hard, as if reading a passage in a book she had read before but had just found it contained a new meaning. 'Want,' she told her, in a measured tone, 'is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely.

Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

Stories are always best when the story has a bottom line or point, or a comedic punchline, or a lesson to be learned; if there is no point,  the story might not be worth telling. People will usually look for the bottom line or purpose of why the story was told in the first place.

Some would look at Emily's life and think that a child born with Down's syndrome has little hope for a meaningful life. Throw in the diagnosis of leukemia and that little hope turns into no hope whatsoever. I disagree. Emily's life, with all its imperfections, had great meaning. Because of how many people she touched, I realize that we are far more than what we can accomplish. We are the very thumbprints of God.

It was perfect. I mean . . . not that anything really happened." "Oh, George, it's not how much you do, it's what you feel while you're doing it. You know that. But do you know the real truth?" "No, What?" "The real truth is that whoever you love will be just like me, and not just in the fog. Understand?" "No." "You will

dude — A passive-aggressive euphemism for "motherfucker." —The New Devil's Dictionary

Of course," Braithwhite added, "it didn't really happen that way. Biblical literalism is for the simple. But it's a useful parable.

Something else that puzzles me about other people is that a lot of them don't know their purpose in life. This usually does bother them—more than not being able to remember being born, anyway—but I can't even imagine it. Part of knowing who I am is knowing why I am, and I've always known who I am, from the first moment.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'