Quotes About Meaning

If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren't reasons behind the terrible things that go on.

you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow must galvanize you, not define you.

The terrible things that happen to us in this life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no end in sight.

There's nothing sad about loving someone so much that nothing makes sense without him. It's the definition of joy.

But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.

Man (???) is meant to be God's garden, his ???????, and bring forth a unique fruit. The fruit of his labors is a life of unselfish devotion to the service of God.

I don't know, I can't quite get it. Don't try. It's just words. Just words? Just words! We love them so much, you and me. But in the end, they fail us. Because there are truths beyond words.

I don't actually think "true love" is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.

Nothing...They're from nothing,' he said. 'They came in the book...I found the book and inside were these flowers...They were in the book when I bought it... I bought it used...Because they meant something. 'To someone else.' 'To someone.

The key that unlocks the door is the simple idea that no clause of the Constitution exists in textual isolation. We must read the document as a whole. Doing so will enable us to detect larger structures of meaning—rules

Places grow to have meaning in your life from experience, from the process of connecting. The inevitable contemplation of commemorative tattoos follows.

In our overcommunicated society, the paradox is that nothing is more important than communication.

Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.

Not everything which happens to us occurs with reference to something about us.

We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness.

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Beneath the kiss itself, it is its meaning that interests us—which is why the desire to kiss someone can be decisively reduced (as it may need be, for instance, when two lovers are already married to other people) by a declaration of that desire—a confession which may in itself be so erotic as to render the actual kiss superfluous.

Alice cold make no sense of the despair into which she had fallen. She had always held that happiness should be defined as an absence of pain rather than the presence of pleasure. So why, with a decent job, good health, and a roof over her head, did she regularly and so childishly collapse into moist sobs?

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.