Quotes About Meaning

Great beauty and youth capture our attention, excite a deep pleasure; however, why shouldn't our souls gaze at a countenance over which the years have passed? Isn't there a story there, one unknown, full of pain or beauty, which pours its reflection into the features, a story we can read with some compassion or at least get a slight hint of its meaning? The young point toward the future; the old tell of a past.

Aduro himself had told them so.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.

Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.

In the mind of a Giver, the definition of success itself takes on a distinctive meaning: Whereas Takers view success as attaining results that are superior to others, and Matchers see success in terms of balancing individual accomplishments with fairness to others, Givers are inclined to follow (Peter Audet)'s lead, characterizing success as individual achievements that have a positive impact on others.

Productivity is just the means to the end. If you are not all intrinsically motivated maybe it's just the wrong project

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth As fun as the acronym is, the Bible is neither basic nor simply instructions for what to do before you die.

Suffering can either destroy us, or it can add meaning to our life.

I don't know what most people mean when they use the word love. If they haven't contorted their lives around a hope sharp enough to bleed them empty, then I think they're just kidding. A

Against the monster, I've always wanted meaning. Not for its own sake, because in the usual course of things, who needs the self-consciousness of it? Let meaning be immanent, noted in passing, if at all. But that won't do when the monster has its funnel driven into the back of your head and is sucking the light coming through your eyes straight out of you into the mouth of oblivion. So like a cripple I long for what others don't notice they have: ordinary meaning.

what did it mean, then, when his story was nothing, just a suggestion of a life?

literature is a fiction that tells a deeper truth

For us, the story is more important than the person.

With a baby, I'd have something to show for all this. I'd have a reason. At the least, I'd have something to leave behind.

Jun Do remembered that he had no one that mattered to him, which was why his tattoo would be of an actress he'd never seen, taken from a calendar at the helm of a fishing boat.

Since bad timing could mean almost anything, it was a certain kind of truth. A low kind.

Drodzy s? i widziani we ?nie przyjaciele, Gdy prawdziwych na jawie widzim tak niewiele.

this was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.

genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood

The sign that something does matter to us is that we lose our steadiness.

They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?

To say a word once is communicative, to say it twice is emphatic, but to say it twenty times turns it into a trippy floating nothing.

As for its original meaning in the evolution of us, I no longer know if it is true. As we have seen, in technology, in sex, in fashion, we are different from other animals. But the implication that the differences between us and them are determined by our relative position on a line is questionable.