Quotes About Meaning

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Accept the fact that sometimes coincidences happen. Clouds sometimes look like horses and clocks sometimes stop for no reason. Resist the urge to find meaning and significance everywhere you look.

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be scuttled by the storm.

The book was a pleasure to write, and I thought it both original and good, though what was original about it was not necessarily good, and what was good about it was not always original.

Carol's life had been so incomplete: a verb without an object

Everything you see or hear is a sign for you to decode.

Let a Sense of Purpose Guide You Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings blessed death. —Leonardo da Vinci

No power is made available by ignoring images and symbols. There is no possible reversal to this law.

no existe un gesto que no comunique un significado.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. —Friedrich Nietzsche

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within. —Abraham Maslow

The root of the Latin word for envy, invidia, means "to look through, to probe with the eyes like a dagger.

If your orders are vague and halfhearted, by the time they reach the field they will be meaningless. Let people work unsupervised and they will revert to their natural selfishness: they will see in your orders what they want to see, and their behavior will promote their own interests.

A nothing that said everything.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

From the Latin, con clavis : 'with a key'.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

They may come to feel that only the world's death can enable them to overcome their own inner deadness.

Maybe if I smiled more when I made jokes, he thought idly, leaning against the side of the barricade. Then they'd understand what I meant. That, of course, raised the question: Did he want people to understand? It was often more amusing the other way. Besides, smiling was so garish.

Her silence was more eloquent than any words.

The choice isn't always about what you do, son, but why you do it.

never be able to tell you what your friendship means to me, what you mean to me." Despite everything, that was simple truth. "The whole world seems to be changing every time I blink. You three are one of the few firm spots in it.