Quotes About Meaning

When Tatiana had been a child in Luga, her beloved Deda, seeing her depressed one summer and unable to find her way, said to her, 'Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask, what do you love?

That's what it was. I had been given something I absolutely did not deserve. And only here in coming back did I realize what I had been freely given. Why was I given it? What was I going to do with it now that I knew I had it? I didn't want to go to sleep. I didn't want this to be my last night. I didn't want to go home. I wanted to understand, and after I understood, to feel better.

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

no entiendo la existencia humana y la necesaria lucha por mejorarla sin la esperanza y sin el sueño.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

Necesitamos las palabras para saber quiénes somos o qué queremos.

Si uno diluye un buen poema en un litro de agua consigue un cuento regular. Si uno diluye ese cuento en diez litros de agua, consigue una novela innecesaria.

Es uno el que está atento solo a las cosas que le competen y entonces recorta del infinito caos cotidiano justo lo que lo interpela?

I would like to know just what kind of nothing I am

big things are best said, are almost always said, in small words.

it is harder to decide what you want to say than it is to figure out how to say it.

a speech about everything is a speech about nothing.

It is usually and paradoxically true that the more important the message, the less time required to say it.

Always reduce it down. This keeps it from having a false bigness in your mind, and allows you to get your hands around it. Another way to get a handle on what you want to say is to ask: What does this speech have to do? Every speech has a job, a reason for being.

They weren't trying to self-consciously fashion a phrase that would grab the listener. They were simply trying to capture in words the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.

What do you think of your job as? What service are you performing in society? What's the point of what you do?

Amelia Bedelia," said Mrs. Rogers, "Christmas is just around the corner." "It is?" said Amelia Bedelia. "Which corner?" Mrs. Rogers lauhged and said, "I mean tomorrow is Christmas Day." "I know that," said Amelia Bedelia.

To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.

One might say that Christianity's original answer to the question "What is the purpose of life?" was: the purpose of life is Sunday.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.