Quotes About Meaning

Your job is to find out what the world is trying to be.

Things you know before you hear them -- Those are you, Those are why You are in the world.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

Durant tota la joventut t'he estat buscant sense saber què buscava.

We need to realize that without some notion of historical recurrence, no one can meaningfully discuss the past at all.

Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self rather than the expression and communication of one who has already found himself, and is free from resort to sex in the frantic pursuit of his own identity.

It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more.

To accept our past, it helps to reframe our stories and give a positive meaning to even the most difficult life events. We may have no power to change the past, but we do have the power to change the meaning we assign to it.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

When brought to meaning, all importance becomes small, as in death, all life seems nothing. Knowing is destroyed by thinking, not destroyed but sterilized; distilled into knowledge. Thinking, the processing of knowing to knowledge.

If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

But facts fall short of truth, because truth includes the yearnings of the human heart—

Next identify the key trigger words, that is, words that jump out at you as you scan the book. The author uses them again and again because they represent key facets of the book's theme. In The Einstein Factor, such terms as "Image Streaming," "Squelcher," and "Feedback Loop" will have jumped out at you. Find out precisely what the trigger words mean, and you will understand the book.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in a world of their own?