Quotes About Meaning

TO understand the meaning of womanhood we have to start with God. If He is indeed "Creator of all things visible and invisible" He is certainly in charge of all things, visible and invisible, stupendous and miniscule, magnificent and trivial. God has to be in charge of details if He is going to be in charge of the overall design.

And one more thing: I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

Some day, even you will see that there's sense in this. Your suffering is never for nothing.

The Lord did not say we should not use repetition. He said we should not use vain repetition. A prayer prayed from the heart of the child to the Father is never vain.

Nothing that comes to me is void of divine purpose. In seeking to see the whole with God's eyes, we can find the peace which human events so often destroy.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Life feels pointless.

Nor could I have imagined that afterward I would spend the rest of my life explaining that death does not exist.

Mis pacientes moribundos me enseñaron mucho más que lo que es morirse. Me dieron lecciones sobre lo que podrían haber hecho, lo que deberían haber hecho y lo que no hicieron hasta cuando fue demasiado tarde, hasta que estaban demasiado enfermos o débiles, hasta que ya eran viudos o viudas. Contemplaban su vida pasada y me enseñaban las cosas que tenían verdadero sentido, no sobre cómo morir, sino sobre cómo vivir.

The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

para llevar una buena vida y así tener una buena muerte, hemos de tomar nuestras decisiones teniendo por objetivo el amor incondicional y preguntándonos: «¿ Qué servicio voy a prestar con esto?»

Lo principal que hacía era escucharlos, pero también los animaba a «ver» que todavía les era posible llevar vidas plenas, productivas y felices. La vida es un reto, no una tragedia.

Los que recuerdan los sueños saben que muchas de nuestras preguntas encuentran allí una respuesta

Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life. If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts.

What I'm telling you is, productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is," he says.

What is the real goal? Nobody here has even asked anything that basic.

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

Have you located your passion as if this was your last night on earth?

Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss.

We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.

Frank, saying, Who cares what happens before we're born and after we die? The question is, what do we do in the meantime?

I am in agreement with Goethe, who said that every day one ought to ´´hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.´´ I would add to this the need to love. Without it, the rest is dust.´´

Nona leans forward, I had-a love. I nod. You know how it was? It was like-a trees. Oak and elm. Her voice has been soft, like it was lost in memory, but now she stares at me, her eyes narrowed, and she makes a fist and pounds the side of her chair. The roots, they bound-a together, but the trees, they are free. You know what it's-a mean?

If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.