Quotes About Meaning

I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and others don't. Why someone can be so imperfect and still be the perfect person for you. Maybe, in the end, it's not about changing the person you care about. Maybe it's about learning what you can live with. Or maybe it's really about learning what you can't live without.

She told me that at the end of death there was a long tunnel and in it awaited everyone you ever loved. But if you never loved anyone there was just an empty room.

What Wittgenstein said: What you say, you say in a body; you can say nothing outside of this body.

dukkha, which is usually translated as "suffering," can have other meanings. In Tibetan Buddhism, the word is sometimes slanted differently, she says. Instead of saying that life is suffering, they might say that life is tolerable. As in just barely.

Of course it is difficult. You are creating a creature with a soul, my friend says.

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him.

The story is good how about you

You can give your life meaning.' She stroked my forehead from the center to the temples, with just her fingertips. 'We all can.

For it is eloquence all the same whether few things are said in many words, or many things in few words.

see the hidden meaning of Scripture in all its fullness (for the word of God is a pearl and may be pierced on every side)

We are capable of generating an almost infinite number of narratives about the same event, and it is the interpretation of the event that matters, not just the event itself.

We are not just information processors, we are meaning makers.

A poem should not mean/ but be.

I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind

I must say that "Right" has no meaning to me whatsoever! Truth has meaning - as a direction. But one of the peculiar imbecilities of our time is the grid of morality we have placed on human behavior: so that every act of man must be measured against an arbitrary latitude of right and longitude of wrong - in exact minutes, seconds, and degrees!... -Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit The Wind

A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.

My point... is of course not that solipsism is true; it's just that truth, reference, and the rest of the semantic notions aren't psychological categories. What they are is: they're modes of Dasein. I don't know what Dasein is, but I'm sure that there's lots of it around, and I'm sure that you and I and Cincinnati have all got it. What more do you want?

Whether fellowship is perceived as participation or partnership, in either case it implies a responsibility to fulfill our function in the body. We usually don't think of fellowship in terms of fulfilling a responsibility, but that is because we have lost sight of the biblical meaning of fellowship. Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.

Randomness, luck, chance, fate. This is modern man's answer to the age-old question, "Why?

But that which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God; our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

A complete story is the most fulfilling, because it has the shape of our most meaningful experience. Whether

For Helen Keller, it was not visual perception that sustained the meaning-making dog-DOG relation. Yet she and I, each in our way, can both satisfy the conditions for DOG-possession according to the present [rationalist] account of those conditions.

To believe in God is to believe not only that love is stronger than death but also that joy is stronger than boredom.