Quotes About Meaning

Anche se finalmente aveva trovato un nome, non era rimasto più nessuno che potesse chiamarlo in quel modo. Eppure Johan era un così bel nome.

This is how we make sense of the world, by trapping it in words and sentences, by pinning it like a butterfly to a felt backcloth, killing it to keep it still, so we may trace its lines.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

What is wrong with life is human memory, she thought. What is the point of life and history--all that human beings sacrifice and endure, overcome and rejoice over--if we do not remember? What point are the centuries, years, months, hours, minutes, if they slip through our fingers, if we learn nothing?

It shouldn't be. It should be beautiful. A bond, a promise. That's what the word means, after all. I looked it up once. Fiancé: from the French word 'fiance,' meaning, 'to trust.

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

No matter where you go, however far away, a part of me will be with you and a part of you, with me, will stay But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.

The understanding table of enlightenment and the ideas of which solidifies the two sides of left and right to dictate what's true and what's false! To understand the meaning of understanding takes a lot more listening than speaking!!

I stood knocking at the doorsteps of heaven as I died… "Who are you…?" I was asked. "My entire existence on earth could not tell me who I was… And that is what I have come to ask you…

I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Jesus is not one among the 28 Adventist Fundamental Beliefs. Rather, He is the fundamental Adventist Belief through whom all other "beliefs" unfold and find their meaning.

But it is not theology that saves us. Jesus holds that place. Our theology continues to be the way we express our best thoughts about Jesus but Jesus is not bound by our words. He always transcends them. He lives beyond them, in a realm of meaning we can hardly comprehend. So we use these units of thought that we call words to explain, describe, and try to capture the mystery of Jesus. However, our words fail us—and they always will.

No, no," Arnie says. "Fondle--fondle is to touch. Everything sounds Yiddish to you. Far-fetched, far-flung..." "Farflung is Yiddish." "No," Arnie says, "it's not.

The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

"Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own."