Quotes About Meaning

La pensée est le réveil du sens.

It matters little whether we see or not the triumph of our work or even its recognition; that has no importance, as long as it is devoted to truth and justice. As long as this is so, we shall not die, we shall always have friends and even a homeland, as we carry it within us; our country is that of the spirit. Ödön von Horvath, letter to Theodor Csokor of 23 March 1938

There can be no neutrality. Not for anyone, still less for a writer. Those who use the weapon of words as an ornament or a toy leave the field open to the adversary.

Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.

To love someone," she said. "I can tell from your face that you love this man, and you loved your husband, too. What is it like?" "It is . . . wonderful," I replied. "It gives me a reason to wake up every morning. When he is happy, I am happy; when he is sad, I want only to cheer him. It is the best thing in life; nothing else comes close to it.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet

Av, sava??n yerini tutan bir etkinlik olarak görülürdü ya da daha sonraki bir tarihten kalma bir metne göre sava?? en iyi ö?reten etkinlikti. Türklerin gözünde sava? ile av hemen hemen e? anlaml?yd? ve genel kural olarak eri?kin say?labilmek için bir insan? öldürmek gerekiyordu, av ba?ar?s? da genellikle buna e? tutulurdu.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Words are loaded pistols.

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

ours is a world about which we pretend to have more and more information but which seems to us increasingly devoid of meaning.

We still do not know what Yeshua really said. We know only what a number of hearers and witnesses have heard. Scripture consists of what has been heard, not what has been said.

Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.

Maybe the meaning of your life is what your life means to you now. It's hard to understand that time doesn't exist because we have such a clear experience of past, present and future, but we don't really experience past and future, only present. Past and future are just ideas in the present. This means that there is only now, but what is now? We can't say what now is because there is no not-now. It's always now. There is only now.

All fear is ultimately fear of no-self. "And what is enlightenment," I ask Sarah, "but a swan dive into the abyss of no-self?

Dedicating one's life to lofty spiritual ideals is every bit as life-defining and purpose-giving as the quest for heaven or power or money or love. Just because there's a flashing neon sign above the door that says "Free Enlightenment! The Shortest & Easiest Way! The One True Path!" doesn't mean that what goes on inside is really about enlightenment, or that the people who go in really want it.

The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning—the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life—a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

The right words communicate; the wrong words obfuscate.

The awakening man leads a purpose-full existence. He has heard the call to a deeper life. Not satisfied with survival alone, his ambitions are rooted in higher considerations- the excavation and actualization of his sacred purpose. He is energized by his purpose, not by the machinations of the unhealthy ego. He is coated in an authenticity of purpose that sees through the veils to what really matters. His purpose is his path.