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Quotes About Meaning

By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.
~ Albert Hofmann
Some proverbs live because they are too true to die. Others endure because they have a smug sound and nobody has bothered to bury them.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer
One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.
~ Albert Schweitzer
the miracles were not intended to authenticate the teaching of Jesus, but to surround His life with a guard of honour."20
~ Albert Schweitzer
The only ones among us who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer
He had a ponytail. But this was not a regular ponytail from the Sixties, not a ponytail for show or for fashion. It was more. It was a personal ponytail, something more defining and lasting. A personal thing is different, and all the books and all the magazines in the world can't tell you what that is.
~ Alberto Alvaro Ríos
It was just spooky . . . . The Bird-man, the War-man, those guys, and that day we tried to find out something. I don't know if we did, though. Maybe that was the point. Maybe it was something about what's personal. I don't know, but it's lasted a long time.
~ Alberto Alvaro Ríos
Things don't have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Sinto uma alegria enorme Ao pensar que a minha morte não tem importância nenhuma.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Also at times, on the surface of streams, Water?bubbles form And grow and burst And have no meaning at all Except that they're water?bubbles Growing and bursting.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:— Things don't have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.
~ Alberto Caeiro
No hay como tener un libro clave para uno firmado por el autor que lo escribió.
~ Alberto Fuguet
Uno tiene una vida incluso cuando no tiene vida.
~ Alberto Fuguet
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
~ Alberto Giacometti
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
~ Alberto Manguel
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
~ Alberto Moravia
Gli uomini confondono ciò che ha bisogno di uno scopo per giustificare se stesso, con il lirismo che non ha bisogno di uno scopo, perché è di là da ogni scopo;..
~ Alberto Savinio
"Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."
~ Albom, Mitch
All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
~ Albom, Mitch