Quotes About Meaning

Ce qui m'intéresse n'est pas toujours ce qui m'importe.

Zingeving halen we het beste uit een doel dat we samen met anderen nastreven, en dat maakt ons gelukkig ook. Uit gemeenschappelijke plannen dus.

And all else is literature.

Pourquoi travailler ? Parce qu'on n'éprouve plus, tant qu'on travaille, le sentiment, toujours tapi à l'arrière-plan de la conscience, qu'on mourra tôt ou tard ; et, dans mon cas, qu'on mourra bientôt.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

You know there isn't much to do in life once you fall though the surface of things.

Words are nets through which all truth escapes ("News From The World")

I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in."—Neil Gaiman

We knew what we had and what it meant, and though so much had happened since for both of us, there was nothing like those years in Paris, after the war. Life was painfully pure and simple and good, and I believed Ernest was his best self then. I got the very best of him. We got the best of each other.

Let's just say I've developed a theory that only the vanished truly leave their mark. And I still don't feel I've sorted it out. Maybe we never do survive our families.

It was terrible to feel so empty, as if I were nothing. Why couldn't I be happy? And just what was happines anyway?

Perhaps Ernest's marriage meant, as I'd said, that there was no cliff to fling myself from. But what did that matter when love itself was an ocean, and you could drown in even a teacup of it?

But what does it all add up to? What is all the suffering for if not so we can see how alike we are, and not alone? Where will the mercy come from, if not from us?

What am I meant for then?" "How wonderful that question is, Beru." He smiled mysteriously. "And as you did not die on this day, you have more time in which to answer it.

The whip shouldn't have been more than a gnat for Paddy," Bishon Singh told me. "What do you mean?" "What is a whip to a lion? He must have been ready to let you go. Or perhaps you weren't ever meant for him." I

His words were another kind of current. "What am I meant for then?" "How wonderful that question is, Beru." He smiled mysteriously. "And as you did not die on this day, you have more time in which to answer it." —

I don't exactly know, but it feels important to go there. It feels important to go everywhere one can and see all there is to see and try to understand it. Everything's changing so fast. I want to believe in something while there's still time. I want to tell the truth, even when it's difficult. And I want to find the story I'm meant to write.

This is why there is poetry. For days like these.

I had the pure sense that I couldn't ever truly lose the past, or forget what any of it had meant.

Knowing that he should impress Bob meant that Ernest was ineluctably drawn to offend him.

This is your life's work for a reason. The things you've lost have drawn you to help these children and young women. I think you know that already, but you can't see what I can.

parents today are more likely to say their primary wish for their children is that they be happy. In pursuit of this goal they indulge their children, often unconsciously, to a degree that is startling to previous generations. All parents need to remember that true happiness comes through having character and discipline, and living a life of meaningful contribution—not by having and doing whatever you wish.

Deep-rooted happiness may require a sense of purpose. If I don't feel that I am in some small way contributing to the greater good, holding on to happiness is like carrying water in my hands.

All he had was the story of his life, which was as good as any other man's, and in the end it is all we have.