Quotes About Meaning

Mama said there was always a catastrophe coming. Someone's world was always coming to an end. It wasn't our worry to change every ending, only the endings we could

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

However, it may come as a surprise to know that in the Hebrew language the word for "service" is the same word used for "worship.

Parrots learn profanity more easily than common phrases since we utter our curses with so much vigor. The parrot doesn't know the meaning of these words, but he hears the energy invested in them. Even animals can pick up on the power we have hidden in the shadow!

The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

No greater glory, no greater honor, is the lot of man departing than a feeling possessed deep in his heart that the world is a better place for his having lived

Dreams, [...], are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

But there's one problem that you have to solve if you're to go on profiting from books, and books won't help you much to solve it [,,,] The problem of finding someone, even one single person, you can endure life with. To me it's acute.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers .

What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flattered by it.

Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

But more telling for me as a persuasion scientist attuned to pre-suasive approaches was how Mr. Buffett began that all-important section.

Because I love you," I said. "Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.

Sometimes, when I am reading, the way a person has phrased his truth is as important to me as the truth itself.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?"