Quotes About Meaning

Ensinar a ler é sempre ensinar a transpor o imediato. é ensinar a escolher entre sentidos visíveis e sentidos invisíveis. é ensinar a pensar no sentido original da palavra "pensar" que significava "curar ou "tratar" um ferimento.

Toda a roupa recebe a alma de quem a usa.

Todos nós somos impossíveis tradutores de sonhos. Na verdade, os sonhos falam em nós o que nenhuma palavra sabe dizer.

Demasio-me nesta palavração

É que há perguntas que não podem ser dirigidas às pessoas, mas à vida. Pergunte à vida, senhor. Mas não a este lado da vida. Porque a vida não acaba do lado dos vivos. Vai para além, para o lado dos falecidos. Procura desse outro lado da vida, senhor.

A vida é um colar. Eu dou o fio, as mulheres dão as missangas.

Contar una historia es echar sombras a la lumbre. En ese preciso instante, todo lo que la palabra revela lo consume el silencio. Solo quien reza entregando por completo el alma sabe lo que significa ese arder y esa caída de la palabra en los abismos.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

Não chegamos realmente a viver durante a maior parte da nossa vida. Desperdiçamo-nos numa espraiada letargia a que, para nosso próprio engano e consolo, chamamos existência. No resto, vamos vagalumeando, acesos apenas por breves intermitências.

what is to life is to die

I don't think of myself as a writer. I'm troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I have dead friends, friends in prison, friends who are prostitutes, on drugs, drunk, married to shitty men. I write because I need to write, to make sense of life. Honesty is everything to me.

Rastafari teachings vigorously advocated self-sufficiency through self-awareness and provided an alternative source of meaning and identity to lives that were frequently mired in hopelessness, alienation, and despair.

The investigator is an interpreter (second order) of the interpretations people have already given to their lives (first order).

It's important that you identify what the best things are in your life. The things that do more than just get you through the day. The things that make you want the next day to come. And once you identify those things, it's critical that you nurture them and keep them strong.

We must see God, when we see God as agentic, as an uplifting force only, and abandon most if not all of God's other purported attributes. God is only where God is, not everywhere. God is only what God is, not everything. And God is only good, not bad. I see these as the true meaning of Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh, "I am that which I am" (Exodus 3:14).

If God acts only through us, it follows that there is a sense in which we are responsible not only to God but for God, or at least God's continuance, by our actions.4 Take this to heart and a great deal changes. One weight is lifted and another is taken on—a weight that does not bend our backs but gives joy to life and purchase to our step.

the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else.

You need to be confronted By the Stranger on the shore You need to have Him search your soul You need to hear the call You need to learn exactly What it means for you to follow You need to realize that He`s asking for your all.

Literal interpretation without context is not only dangerous but contrary to what the Bible teaches.

He took as well as gave, but what he gave was unique. He had a curious precision of statement, a delicate flavour of humour, and a trick of small gestures to illustrate his meaning, which were peculiar to himself. The effect cannot be reproduced, but I remember how in discussing the wars of the future he said: "A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle" — his upraised hand and precise face conjuring up a vivid and grotesque picture.

A life was no goddamn thing in the end, he thought. Bits and pieces of make-believe cobbled together to look halfways human, like some stick-and-rag doll meant to scare crows out of the garden. No goddamn thing at all.

Her father used to say The death of a horse is the life of a crow, and Ada had never really taken in the meaning of the phrase. But she knew it in her bones now.

The pain in itself is not joy. It is simply pain. But the meaning of the pain, that is joy.

El arte es como una declaración de amor, la conciencia de que dependemos unos de otros. Una confesión. Un acto inconsciente que, sin embargo, refleja el verdadero significado de la vida: amor y sacrificio.