Quotes About Meaning

Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment....

Life minus love equals zero.

It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

Well, I think life is precious because you can't watch it again. I mean you can believe in an after life if that makes you feel better but once you realize you're not going to be around forever, I think that's what makes life so magical.

It always comes back to us - why are we here? Well, we just happened to be here, we couldn't choose it. The chance of us being born - that sperm hitting that egg - is 400 trillion to 1. We're not special, we're just lucky; and this is a holiday. We didn't exist for 14 and a half billion years. Then we get 80 or 90 years if we're lucky, and then we'll never exist again. So we should make the most of it.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

self and society are always interfused; there is no clear place where one ends and the other begins. Subjectivity is always caught up with intersubjectivity, personal experience awash with social and political meanings.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

the Blue Nile. I could see the envelope sinking, sinking…but

Pinto hove into sight, his drab, insignificant exterior concealing a drab, insignificant soul.

Finally, I spread my arms even wider and announced, "It's a good day to die!" "Well," Mom chirped in, "it's not a bad day to live either." She had a point. So now I end my blessings like this: "It's a good day to die!" I say. And then, with gusto, "It's a good day to live!

Your presence has no meaning when your absence doesn't alter their life.

A sher is made of two poetical lines bearing a complete meaning.

Meaningful words are called kalma. A group of meaningful words that makes a complete sense is called kalam. A collection (majmua) of ghazals by a particular poet is called a diwan.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn't interpreted, then it can't be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people.

Nothing always means something.

What does natural mean? Means non-artificial. Made by nature. But nature can't make things. It's not a person. Nature is the things that aren't made by people. But we're made by people, so what does that make us? Are we artificial?

Stories don't have points. They're lies for keeping the truth in. They're sort of rounded, not pointy at all.

Living for the Product instead of living for the Producer.

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

The vision of the ideal life that we've been taught in the West, which is gaining ever more purchase in China and India and elsewhere, feeds the system we need to undo. Go to school in order to get a degree in order to get a job in order to earn money so you can try to buy happiness because your life sucks, then retire and die: this is not meaningful living.

Smote.' I haven't gotten to use that word since my days upstairs. I kind of miss it. Lots of pomp and circumstance in a word like that." He tapped his chin as the smile became sly. "Downstairs we just say slaughter or massacre or team-building exercise.