Quotes About Meaning

Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone, and that there are meanings that cannot be bought, sold or traded, that do not decay and die. This socially and economically worthless experience is called transcendence, and you cannot assign a paper, or a grade, or an academic rank, on that. Literature is too sacred to be taught. It needs only to be read.

All love songs, no matter how eloquent or crude, ornamented or plain, in whatever language they are sung, say essentially the same thing. All love stories have but one meaning.

Sharon Dirckx concluye su libro de esta manera: «Si usted es solo su cerebro, entonces fue hecho solo para este mundo, por lo que el único lema para vivir es que viva bien y aproveche al máximo la vida mientras la tenga. El cristianismo dice que usted es más que su cerebro: está hecho para la eternidad. De una forma u otra, habrá conciencia

It flows out of the point I just made. Christians believe that as wonderful as Jesus' life and teachings and miracles were, they were meaningless if it were not historically factual that Christ died and was raised from the dead and that this provided atonement, or forgiveness, of the sins of humanity.

God didn't love me because I made myself valuable through service; on the contrary, I was valuable because I was loved by God.

One writer referred to the problem of pain as "the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

telegram saying, "Existence is great but don't read so much into it.

Make of that what you will.

one of her recent letters asks, Is it hubris to believe we all live epics? (Perhaps it is, but I suspect she's not actually counting on me for an answer.)

I wanted to hear about many small things, the smaller the better. I wanted to tell her small things in return.

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

Nothing lovable is eternal or sempiternal or deathless, or that the eternal is not lovable.

Nietzsche's atheism is characterized by an element of gratitude; it is not simply a rebellion.

The most awe-inspiring laws are based on more or less successful attempts to find out what is in the highest sense, namely, the gods and the soul and hence what the gods demand from men and what death means.

Why does the benefactor love the recipient more than the recipient loves the benefactor? Because the benefactor lives in the recipient, the way in which the poet lives in the poem.

Still he was uncertain. He wondered if everything had gone as it should. Was that all there was to it? Perhaps it had been celebrated out of proportion because there was nothing else to live for.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of others.    ââ'¬â€ALBERT EINSTEIN I

After the event, of course, a signal is always crystal clear; we can now see what disaster it was signaling…. But before the event it is obscure and pregnant with conflicting meanings."6

Do the stars have a meaning? Then my life has a meaning.

Christians have made the gospel about so many things—things other than Christ. But Jesus Christ is the gravitational pull that brings everything together and gives it meaning. Without Him, all things lose their value. They are but detached pieces floating around in space. That includes your life.1

life without love, is no life at all

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

If there's no love, what then?