Quotes About Meaning

No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

The meaning of the dawning pays tribute to the storm.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

Always choose life. A demeaned life is better than the best death.

Morir es fácil; lo difícil es vivir. Y cuanto más difícil se vuelve, más fuerte es la voluntad de seguir viviendo. Y cuanto mayor es el miedo a la muerte, mayor es el esfuerzo que se hace por conservar la vida.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

For all these differences, the basic insight remains: when a critical mass of people in society feel their expectations in life have been dashed, conditions soon build up to a crisis. And in today's world, those whose expectations have been dashed are able to reach out to one another and build communities of meaning in a way that had never been technologically possible before.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

C'est un parleur étrange, et qui trouve toujours L'art de ne vous rien dire avec de grands discours.

Die Dinge haben nur den Wert, den man ihnen verleiht.

A quienes me preguntan la razón de mis viajes les contesto que sé bien de qué huyo pero ignoro lo que busco

Las cosas no valen sino lo que se las hace valer.

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

Gabe, did you pray?' 'Sort of.' 'Me too. Do you believe?' 'No. Do you?' 'No.' 'I don't believe,' said Gabriel, 'But I have faith, if you know what I mean.' 'What in?' 'I don't know, life, carrying on, I suppose.' 'Yes.

Ooo la la! That kiss was fine, and it was full of all the words I didn't need to say.

The journey inward is what gives meaning to the life outside ourselves. Not in any static, dogmatic, once-for-all way either, but in a way that grows and develops and changes to meet different circumstances, different stages of development. Contemplation is not an optional extra -- it is, as much as action, part of the very stuff of being human." 

kažkas yra ?simylimas ne tod?l, kad b?t? simpatiškas ar nesimpatiškas ir visai ne d?l t?kstan?io ger? žmogaus savybi?. ?simylimi žmon?s, kurie pažadina gyvenimui kažk? tavo paties viduje.

I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between.

We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!

All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates

But my mind keeps on thinking," Connla offered hopefully. "As long as I am thinking, I must be alive."  The ant pondered this. "There are many who never think, yet are considered to be alive," it said.  "Then what is 'being alive'?

And people pray—millions of them—and claim they are answered. Are they? Was ever supplication sent into that sky by troubled humanity answered, or even heard? Who knows? They pray for rain and sunshine, and both come in time. They pray for health and success and both are but natural in the marching of events. This is not evidence. But they say that they know, by spiritual uplifting, that they are heard, and comforted, and answered at the moment.

Life is a divine gift. The divine is not something outside of us; it is right in our very center; it is our freedom.