Quotes About Meaning

A story is time itself, boxed and compressed.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.

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Complexity writings are filled with metaphors that try to make complex phenomena understandable to the human brain's hardwired need for order, meaning, patterns, sense making, and control, ever feeding our illusion that we know what's going on. We often don't. But the pretense that we do is comforting—and sometimes necessary for some effort at action.

Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning.

The surest symptoms of a wasted life are breathing, a pulse, and thinking...

The waitress suggests the special, a vegetarian lasagne. Ruiz tells her he didn't fight his way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.

The question is not whether he read James, but which James he read.

But do I need to say anything?" Sophie asked. "Do I need to learn any words?" "Like what?" Saint-Germain said. "Well, when you lit up the Eiffel tower, you said something that sounded like eggness." "Ignis," the count said. "Latin for fire. No, you don't need to say anything." "Then why did you do it, then?" Sophie asked. Saint-Germain grinned. "I just thought it sounded cool.

He's never fired a gun in his life," Palamedes said. "He abhors weapons." As Palamedes spoke,the group could see Shakespeare put the tonbogiri to his shoulder,then jerk three times. Two of the attacking vimanas spun out of control,both of them crashing into two more. The flour flaming craft spiraled into the sea. "But then he's always been full of surprises," Palamedes added.

What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

Gracias. —¿Por qué? —Por regalarme un día más. —No lo hice por ti —reconoció con una sonrisa—, lo hice por motivos puramente egoístas. —El Alquimista arqueó las cejas a modo de pregunta silenciosa—. Lo hice por mí. No estaba dispuesta a vivir un día sin ti.

Consideration of the method used in diverse orders of knowledge allows for the concordance of two points of view which seem irreconcilable. The sciences of observation describe and measure with ever greater precision the multiple manifestations of life … while theology extracts … the final meaning according to the Creator's designs.

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one's place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

Oh, I beg your pardon; I do not know—" he stammered. "What to make of me," interrupted the other. "You would therefore do well to believe just what I tell you, or at least to avoid making conjectures of your own, which will lead to nothing.

Whether people work for themselves or for others, they increasingly want to understand how their actions are contributing to a greater good.They will want to be engaged in work that contributes to society.

Meaning comes from engagement in positive work that challenges our personal capacity combined with knowledge that our positive work is making a larger contribution to the overall well-being of humanity and life on the planet.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

It's as absurd to expect a life to have meaning, in contrast to the vastness of the Universe, as it is absurd to take off your shoe and hang it from a tree, but both are wonderful in their way—for I assure you, if you could see that tree, you'd think it wonderful, you'd approve, you'd think that in a wacko way something had been done, something worth doing.

Much of the terror of death is terror of dying without having given. Without even finding what one has to give.

The biblical story is not to be understood simply as a local tale about a certain ethnic group or religion. It begins with the creation of all things and ends with the renewal of all things.

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.