Quotes About Meaning

The value of a life is determined not by its length, but by what you do with it.

she carries with her an almost-tangible expectation that your own deepest wish, like hers, is to serve a greater purpose.

May all beings find their highest purpose and be an inspiration to others.

It is not morbid, not depressing to contemplate one's own death. Completely the opposite! It is only when we have faced the reality of our own death that we really know how to live.

It's not what happens to you that matters, but the way you interpret things.

Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for.

I love you is an interesting phrase, in that apparently small alterations–taking away the I, adding a word like lots or loads–render it meaningless.

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference

Whenever I hear Edith Piaf sing "Non, je ne regrette rien"—which is more often than I'd like, now that I'm at university—I can't help thinking, What the hell is she talking about? I regret pretty much everything.

What was the point of being successful in private?

And there it was. She'd said it and now I could say it back, the most banal and brilliant exchange of dialogue, which we'd repeat, over and over, for just as long as we meant it.

As a matter of fact, I think there are more important things in life than "relationships".

A man's got to choose what matters to him. I made my choice. This matters.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

There is always doubt and always fear. There is always trouble, always tension. Tension and trouble; fear and doubt; war, war, war and then, right on cue- As if by magic, here come Leeds, Leeds, Leeds.

Johnny Watters bends down, sponge in his hand, tongue in your ear, he whispers, "How shall we live, Brian? How shall we live?

You wrote in a poem, "I love your body," as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more than the senses together, an enveloping sense itself sensuous, as if all the body made sense.

Use e.g. when you mean "for example": "I like junk food—e.g., Doritos and Pringles." (How to remember: "For eg-zample.") Use i.e. when you mean "in other words": "He ate Doritos and Pringles—i.e., junk food." (How to remember: "in other words.")

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

All public life sustains itself through metaphor.

metaphor' itself is not a static, ahistorical term; it is not as though there is a pervasive, universal concept of metaphor which can be applied, like a template, to all ages and cultures.

Even the rose, with its traditional connotations of fragrance and purity, can appear in different situations, which underlines the very important point that metaphor is primarily contextual.

metaphor is never static, and rarely innocent.

the struggle to form the new is inevitably already shaped by the metaphors by which we have come to live.