Quotes About Meaning

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

To live without loving is not really to live.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning and transformation.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

Life is an opportunity to create meaning by our deeds, our actions and how we manage our way through the short part of infinity we're given to operate in. And once our life is finished, our atoms go back to forming other interesting configurations with those of other people, animals, plants and anything else that happens to be around, as we all roll along in one big, ever changing, universe.

The facts of a man's life ain't very important, but it seems like they should get said anyways.

Si todo lo que haces, lo haces para hacer otra cosa, ¿cuándo llegas al final de todo? Sisi

I have no future,' said Hanno. 'I need no prophecy. You talk too much, woman.

En realidad, muy de acuerdo con nuestra tradición mental, en la cual las palabras no sirven para nombrar las cosas sino para disfrazarlas, liberal y conservador no eran palabras que denotaran una filosofía, sino etiquetas que diferenciaban a los mismos protagonistas en distintos momentos de la rebatiña.

Something else," he told Atkins. He stood with his nose an inch away from the sergeant's, hands stuffed deep in the pockets of his coat. "What does Lucifer mean?" "Light Bearer." "And what is the stuff of the universe?" "Energy." "What is energy's commonest form?" "Light." "I know." And with that, the detective walked away, listing slowly through the squad room and down the stairs. He didn't come back.

Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy house.…" Here was all that could matter, for nothing else did.

That's right. He was smacking his lips a little, that's all." "He was smacking his lips a little?" "Well, yes." Kinderman

The self-evident truths announced in the Declaration of Independence are not truths at all, if taken literally; and the practical conclusions contained in the same passage of that Declaration prove that they were never designed to be so received.