Quotes About Meaning

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

This and countless later experiences working in and around the world of "shrinks" and the mentally ill has led me to the conclusion that overinterpretation of human psychology can be inadvisable. My favorite Freud joke has him sitting in his gentlemen's club in Vienna after dinner, enjoying a cigar. A hostile colleague wanders up and says, "That's a big, fat, long cigar, Professor Freud," to which Freud replies, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The fine art is about asking questions and how we understand our world and our place in it.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Una foto comunica qualcosa se è sincera, se lo scambio non è stato acquistato.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity.… And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Il nous faut remplacer les mourants, et les mourants savent qu'ils ne valent que pour ce qu'ils ont transmis.

Un buon libro lascia al lettore l'impressione di leggere qualcosa della propria esperienza personale. Quando la letteratura è al suo apice ci sembra che d'improvviso ricordiamo qualcosa d'importante che sapevamo ma abbiamo scordato.

In Takeuchi's opinion, the word "spirit" is derived from the Latin word "spiro" (to breathe).

Hogin further writes that by doing so "such a man practices zazen in the wrong way." Here lies the mistake of the believers of "no-thought and no-thinking." These people forget that the true meaning of the phrase comes alive when they become one with susoku and koan.

it goes without saying that since time immemorial it has been forbidden to practice Zen as a means of accomplishing some purpose or other, for Zen should be without purposes and without acquisitions.

Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead, we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring