Quotes About Meaning

Goals are what we do. Purposes are why we do what we do.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them , having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.

You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

He wanted something, he realizes now. Wanted an answer other than the ones he'd been given. Wanted to find out this whole world had some purpose, some particular purpose. For him.

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

He's uncertain what's going to happen next. But he is certain that that's actually the point. If this is all a story, then that's what the story means. If it isn't a story, then the exact same is true. But as his friends begin the final steps, pressing buttons, answering questions on a screen, he thinks that what is forever certain is that there's always more. Always.

As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.

It's love. But it's a different kind," "Doesn't make it any less love, though.

Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing the things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.

No," Seth says, firmly, "what I've learned is that there actually is more. There's you guys. You guys are my more.

Tu vida no la escribes con palabras —dijo el monstruo—. La escribes con acciones. Lo que piensas no es importante. Lo único importante es lo que haces.

This was a kingdom. ("What?" Conor said, looking around his backyard. "Here?") (The monster cocked its head at him curiously. You have not heard of it? ) ("Not a kingdom around here, no," Conor said. "We don't even have a McDonald's.")

His last word had been my name. The last word he heard was me speaking his own. Did this mean anything? And if it only meant something for the two of us, did that reduce it?

Sarah felt that any world that needed this many lessons must have something deeply wrong with it.

You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions.

I just want the world to make sense now and then, is that so wrong?

It was not wrong, the monster said, It was only a thought, one of a million. It was not an action.

Are you serious? Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

Las historias son importantes -dijo el monstruo-. Pueden ser más importantes que cualquier otra cosa. Si portan la verdad.