Quotes About Meaning

Don't Let The Medium Massage The Message

A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life

The purpose of meaning is the meaning of purpose.

God created reality using language. The Devil is destroying reality by perverting language

Love is the spiritualisation of the sea on which a friendship set sail

Primarily all the answers can be found in the question of mortality

When you 'own' a work of art it immediately loses its value

When you take The Creator out of the picture, you are left without a frame

Sartre said Hell is other people. I'd say Hell is other people's utopia.

The content of the glass is far more important than whether it is half full or half empty

When you take God out of the picture you are left without a frame

Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.

It is not possible to translate a language that does not exist.

If the human soul is just a bright idea, does that make it exist any less?

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

Yo no he dicho eso. Tiene usted el don de sacar el peor significado posible de mis palabras. Nicholas Brisbane

The soul is a thing apart. When you decide to share that with someone, then you will know what it is to live.

Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.

Because that's how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

People like to have something to turn down, though. They want to be able to say no to some things, because it makes their yes more meaningful.

I'm fine." Oh, how we love and overuse fine, our all-purpose little evasion. Fine means not fine. Fine means Pity me. Fine means Don't ask.

Each story, good and bad, short or long--from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness--they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

What is this?" "Plankton, basically," Henry says. "A plant. A bio luminescent plankton called dinoflagellates." Oh, Henry. He's so romantic.

Nash knows what it means to give your favorite books- it's like handing over a piece of yourself and asking the person to understand it, maybe even treasure it.