Quotes About Meaning

There's a hell all right. It's just not where people say it is....It's here. It's life, or it's what we turn life into, I guess. It's like we have to pass through all this painful stuff to get to where we're supposed to be, on the other side.

I think when NRR talks about 'the room', he's talking about the Amber Room... The Amber Room was stolen by the Nazis in World War Two. And then it disappeared. - Amy

Les vies n'ont pas de sens en fait, elles vont et viennent souvent comme des tsunamis, avec le même fracas, et elles drainent des débris qui croupissent dans ta tête comme autant de reliques, qui te semblent des trésors et ne tiennent pas la position.

from the word you build the village, but from silence you construct the world.

This saddened Zech, and he pondered the why of it.

Punta Rassa," Emma repeated. "That's a pretty name. Does it mean anything?" "It means twelve dollars a cow, and we got a hundred and forty-eight of them. I can't even figure that high.

If God has given all things their significance, and defined their bounds according to time, space, power, and number, and if He has appointed certain measurements to regulate things and times, biblical numbers must be symbolical, and be worthy of our study; and if a fit subject for study, the laws by which this symbolism of numbers is controlled, require to be ascertained.

The more we imbue the world with imagination, the more the world is ensouled - and the more soul it returns to us, singing with meaning.

Ideologies can only ever hope to change our lifestyles; it takes soul to change our lives.

Destiny is the inner meaning of chance.

Our lives are like a piece of embroidery: on one side, all loose ends, cut threads, and knots; but, turned around at death, a marvelous, coherent picture.

As part of the Soul of the World we are part of a cosmic dance of which it is meaningless to ask the purpose and meaning - because it is all purpose and meaning.

God's truth is life ?even the grotesque shapes of its foulest fire.

Small talk allows us to have entire conversations where a lot is said, but at the same time, nothing at all is said.

A value is a rule, principle, or belief that gives meaning to your life.

Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

Oh now now he says that's all over you must forget all about that next week your solitary finishes how about that hmm? I felt like laughing in his face: How can your solitary finish? That's the best laugh yet.

The I is a concept that resists its own nullity as if life depended upon it.

To be awake is to be available to torment, and this is the full complete meaning of life.

Être éveillé, c'est souffrir; voila le sens profond de la vie.

Unless the line of a life, once it has reached its term, purges itself of all its useless and decorative elements. In which case, all that remains is the essential: the blanks, the silences and the pauses.

Y si la felicidad consistía en esa embriaguez pasajera que experimentaba aquella tarde, entonces, por primera vez en mi vida, era feliz

Many of us have merely added Christ to our lives as another interest in an already busy and otherwise overcrowded schedule. This sort of thinking has watered down the meaning of a personal relationship with Christ. The problem is that we often seek the God we want, but do not know the God who is.

Purposes are threads of continuity that we weave into the long-term view of our lives. Goals come and go, but purposes survive because they are long-term, they pertain to the why we exist part of our lives. They relate to how we perceive the theory of our lives.