Quotes About Meaning

O ego vive uma vida quantitativa, o símbolo nos une a uma vida qualitativa e tem a capacidade de impregnar de sentido a coisa mais simples.

Tudo aquilo que se acha num mapa é, e definitivamente deve ser, um símbolo. Sem palavras. O astrólogo, assim, o lê com o lado direito do cérebro; desse modo, as imagens surgem.

and what precisely is this shining

What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.

I don't understand it," I continued. "These things, they just keep happening, and I know it has to mean something. It has to. I want my suffering to mean something. I want this pain to matter.

In moments when I am tempted to treat this gift called time as though it were some unfortunate filler, I hear a gentle whisper from God in my soul: "Child, I am the God who wastes no man's time. To me, every course in your life is main.

more of a sojourn. A sojourn is a "temporary stay at a place."4 And a "stay" is about presence, not productivity.

The magic in any art is not only in its technique but in its authenticity. Truth in its rawest form is what resonates most powerfully.

all of whom shared my intention to deeply impact the

Death is a gift meant to wake up the living, to nudge us toward a life of purpose and intention.

A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death.

The size of action has no value but its aim.

There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying.

Dus jij kunt me de essentie van het leven uitleggen? Daar krijgen we volgend semester examen over, geloof ik. - Claire

Wat vind je van het stuk, prinses Alice? - Will

Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.

The company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life

Often what you humans call chance is instead the workings of a deeper pattern, which the casual eye cannot easily perceive.

There's a weight to having a destination and a purpose, even if that purpose is saying hi to a stranger as he's leaving a cemetery. It tethers me, the way being a mother used to. It makes me feel as though I'm part of something more important than myself.

Don't say anything. Just act cool," I whispered. Mavkel started to shiver. "Like this?" it asked. "No, I mean act calm." Mavkel stopped shivering.

But as Freud and Elvis both remarked, apocryphally at least, work and love are the two things that make life worthwhile.

raising children is one of the most significant, meaningful, and profound experiences of their lives. Is this just an evolutionary illusion, a trick to make us keep on reproducing? I'll argue that it's the real thing, that children really do put us in touch with truth, beauty, and meaning.

Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it." He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.