Quotes About Meaning

Love without action is irrelevant, while action without love is meaningless...combine the two, what you can achieve is almost limitless.

You cannot be human without the ability to make symbols and recognize what they mean. A red stop sign is a symbol that tells cars to halt at an intersection. Red has zero connection to stop until human beings assign it that meaning.

Cuando comencemos a experimentar nuestra vida como la expresión milagrosa de divinidad — no ocasionalmente, sino todo el tiempo — entonces conoceremos el significado verdadero del éxito.

Nothing you really value in your present life—a loving relationship, a good family, worthwhile and rewarding work, and the time to enjoy these things—came about by chance. They grew out of desire and intention.

Well, I think we just had a date," he answers quietly; then, frowning, adds, "At least I think that's what it was. I told my boss I had a date. Hope that's okay? God, could he be any more adorable? Could he?

But what gives human love its special poignancy, and gives human justice its special dignity, is the limit to life.

And what does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

You are hurrying to the sweet place, to the nonsense chasing your spirit and in the nonsense you look for answers.

And one single thing about all this: We were both seventy-two and age meant nothing. We were getting as loopy, as obsessed with each other as anyone falling under the spell of romance.

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

You see, I am good at filling in blanks, at seeing meaning where there may have been none at all. In this way I get very close to the truth. Or closer still to illusion.

Word is a shadow of deed.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

You're blushing." Daggonit. "Cowboys don't blush." "Au contraire.

Just when you seem to yourself nothing but a flimsy web of questions, you are given the questions of others to hold in the emptiness of your hands, songbird eggs that can still hatch if you keep them warm, butterflies opening and closing themselves in your cupped palms, trusting you not to injure their scintillant fur, their dust. You are given the questions of others as if they were answers to all you ask. Yes, perhaps this gift is your answer.

A soulful home is one which mirrors and supports the unique essence of the souls who live there. It is a home infused with a feeling of sacred space that allows you to tap into the hallowed places within you and discern the meaning of your life.