Quotes About Meaning

Since the war, little in the world makes sense and once you see part of it that way, all else follows.

Cowardice can be defended bravely without self-­refutation, because the opposite of cowardice is not courage but bravado.

At the top of the heap is poetry,at least as it used to be written.Nothing else goes far,nothing goes as deep n the blood and soul.Shakespeare surpasses Beethoven because he had sound and meaning.Always remember that as you get older.Poetry is in the emprean,TV is in the pit

Quiero sentir que mi vida ha servido para algo más que para ocupar un espacio, respirar oxígeno, consumir productos y generar basura.

Actually, 'worthless piece of shit' if you think about it, suggests the possibility of the opposite.

He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

Content precedes design. Design in advance of content is not design, it's decoration.

Maybe we don't recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

Saying "I meant well" is not going to cut it. Not with God screaming, begging, pleading, urging us to love mercy and justice, to feed the poor and the orphaned, to care for the last and least in nearly every book of the Bible. It will not be enough one day to stand before Jesus and say, "Oh? Were You serious about all that?

You don't need to wait another day to figure out your calling. You're living it, dear one. Your gifts have a place right now, in the job you have, in your stage of life, with the people who surround you. Calling is virtually never big or famous work; that is rarely the way the kingdom comes. It shows up quietly, subversively, almost invisibly. Half the time, it is unplanned—just the stuff of life in which a precious human steps in, the good news personified.

May I legitimize your gifts? Just because you don't get a pay stub doesn't mean you shrink back or play small or give it all up. Do your thing. Play your note. We are all watching and learning, moved. You are making the world kinder, more beautiful, wiser, funnier, richer, better. Give your gifts the same attention you would if it paid. (Or paid well! Some do our best, most meaningful work

Living a life on purpose is available to everyone.

Money is a blank slate that gets its value from the energy and meaning we give it.

We have no freakin' idea what we're even doing here.

The prophecy seemed to indicate that we should stay together in order to succeed." "The prophecy has many meanings," Kiernan said, "and none of them are clear." "Then why have a prophecy at all?" Brant demanded, a hint of his old irritation breaking into his voice. "Has it really changed anything?" Kiernan asked. "It has changed everything!" "Interesting." Kiernan looked thoughtful."You really think so?

Words will do that. We are a naming species, and what we call things influences the way we think about them and the experiments we deem worthy of doing.

Andrea's breath hurt, but wit her fear came rage, a killing anger. They'd taken her mate A female defending her mate was the most fearsome of Shifters, and whoever had done this to Sean didn't yet know the meaning of terror.

When you lose someone you care about, it's hard to accept that the universe doesn't notice the huge void.

organizations is entirely coincidental.

Explain to me what loving feels like, Beth. I want to understand.

Maybe more of us should have plots. Let's take them out of books and put them back in life where they belong.

This is what I discovered in all those museums in Europe when you really connect with a work of art, it doesn't matter that a million people have already stood where you're standing. The instant it means something to you, it's yours.

En el instante en el que comienza a significar algo para ti, te pertenece.

It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.