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Quotes About Meaning

I felt mildly peculiar to be treasuring love letters for their grammar, but there was nothing else I could treasure them for.
~ Keith Waterhouse
Note to clients, quicklime is a preservative, not a corrosive.
~ Kelley Armstrong
What's their purpose? I asked as a I stood. Children? No idea. It appears to be simply an inconvenient stage between birth and usefulness.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Preferirei chiedere un passaggio allo psicopatico del villaggio. Clay ha ghignato di nuovo. Dimentichi che sono io lo psicopatico del villaggio, darling .
~ Kelley Armstrong
Take off that cloak before you melt, he said. It wasn't disguising you. Nor is that - she waved at his peasant outfit - disguising you. It isn't supposed to. It merely conveys the message that I'm attempting to pass incognito. That makes absolutely no sense.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Too bad dogs can't talk," Sam said. I glanced over at her. "Um, we're all feeling bad about Hayley," Corey said. "Don't interrupt by wishing we could question the dog." "That's not what I meant. Hayley could tell you it was a trap. He can't." "Kenjii's a she," I said. "Whatever.
~ Kelley Armstrong
He just mumbled, Quit it, Bunnatine. Love me alone. Or something like that.
~ Kelly Link
But everyone had to die, and Father had given his life for the sake of a better world. If more Germans had had his courage the Nazis would not have triumphed. She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.
~ Ken Follett
Este hombre te ha dado de comer, te ha vestido y te ha amado de forma incondicional durante tres décadas. Si la palabra «padre» tiene algún significado, entonces tu padre es él.
~ Ken Follett
Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.
~ Ken Follett
I learned the meaning of the word bittersweet, the acid taste of loss and the honey of hope in one bright fruit.
~ Ken Follett
She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.
~ Ken Follett
Kent no hay aeropuerto. Hay uno en
~ Ken Follett
We call him Jonathan, which means a gift from God.
~ Ken Follett
Nosotros creemos estar experimentando la austeridad, pero no conocemos el significado de la palabra.
~ Ken Follett
?i-a dat seama c? nu a È™tiut niciodat? înÈ›elesul libert??ii pân? când nu a pierdut-o.
~ Ken Follett
And like: "Why should one want to wake up dead anyway?" If the glorious birth-to-death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have . . . if our grand and exhilarating Fight of Life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway, compared to the eons of rounds before and after—then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?
~ Ken Kesey
Our thermosed lives are, at best nine-tenths of the time padded by vacuum and sealed by silvered silicon, but, for all their artificiality, we are generally able to find means for unstoppering them now and then, and enjoy at least some portion of addlepated freedom.
~ Ken Kesey
but mostly, I guess, I want to really mean something to somebody
~ Ken Kesey
In other words, this world is not a sin; forgetting that "this world" is the radiance and Goodness of Spirit—there is the sin.
~ Ken Wilber
Left-Hand or interior events cannot be seen in that fashion. You cannot see love, envy, wonder, compassion, insight, intentionality, spiritual illumination, states of consciousness, value, or meaning running around out there in the empirical world. Interior events are not seen in an exterior or objective manner, they are seen by introspection and interpretation
~ Ken Wilber
Aun en el caso de que usted aporte su propia interpretación individual sobre Hamlet —lo cual es absolutamente correcto—, esa interpretación estará arraigada en las realidades y los contextos de su vida real. ¡En cualquier caso, el hecho es que la interpretación no es algo meramente arbitrario!
~ Ken Wilber
in a sea of nihilism, passionate narcissism is the key determinant.
~ Ken Wilber
Hence, in shorthand, the meaning of a statement is the injunction of its enactment. No injunction, no enactment, no meaning. That is, mere metaphysics.
~ Ken Wilber