Quotes About Meaning

Pero ¿es suficiente creer en el amor si uno no cree en la vida?

La sal de la vida es la felicidad, y la felicidad existe; consiste en darle caza.

Il conformismo, infine, che in nome della Civiltà (sic) consente agli ignoranti in malafede di alterare, falsare, sfruttare a proprio uso e consumo il significato del vocabolo «razzismo». Non ne conoscono neanche l'etimologia, i cialtroni. Non capiscono neanche che la parola «razzismo» deriva dalla parola «razza». Non sanno neanche che questa si riferisce a caratteristiche somatiche, affinità etniche, non a credi religiosi.

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myÅ›lÄ™, ?e to ludzie stworzyli Boga, a nie na odwrót. MyÅ›lÄ™, ?e ludzie wymyÅ›lili go z samotnoÅ›ci, bezsilnoÅ›ci, rozpaczy. Czyli po to, by da? odpowied? na zagadkÄ™ egzystencji, aby zÅ'agodzi? nierozwiÄ…zywalne pytania, które ?ycie rzuca nam w twarz... Kim jesteÅ›my, skÄ…d przybywamy, dokÄ…d idziemy.

Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

For all too many of these high-born revolutionaries, the main attraction of 'the cause' lay not so much in the satisfaction which they might derive from seeing the people's daily lives improved, as in their own romantic search for sense of 'wholeness' which might give higher meaning to their lives and to end alienation from the world.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Pensar es un movimento natatorio para salvarse de la perdición en el caos

Nuestra vida es, en todo instante y antes que nada, conciencia de lo que nos es posible. Si en cada momento no tuviéramos delante más que una sola posibilidad, carecería de sentido llamarla así. Sería más bien pura necesidad.»

When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time.

Calling transforms life so that even the commonplace and menial are invested with the splendour of the ordinary.

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

Calling is more than purely cultural, but it is also more than purely personal. Discover the meaning of calling and you discover the heart of the gospel itself.

In short, contrary to the founders—and in ways they do not realize themselves—Americans today are heedlessly pursuing a vision of freedom that is short-lived and suicidal. Once again, freedom without virtue, leadership without character, business without trust, law without customs, education without meaning and medicine, science and technology without human considerations can end only in disaster.

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

what matters for each of us is the adequacy and truth of what we come to believe is the meaning of life—and therefore the source from which we derive our sense of identity, purpose, ethics and community.