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Quotes About Meaning

Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.
~ Lewis Carroll
Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.
~ Lewis Mumford
I salute your spunk, but I question your sanity," Sam said.
~ Libba Bray
It's Yiddish. Like…Ikh hob dikh lib." Evie narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "What does that mean?" Sam smiled. "Maybe one day I'll tell you.
~ Libba Bray
Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.
~ Libba Bray
Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.
~ Libba Bray
You look very handsome, Papa, I say. The twinkle is back in his eyes. Smoke and mirrors, he says with a wink. Smoke and mirrors.
~ Libba Bray
A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.
~ Libba Bray
Our days are numbered in the book of days, Most High, Gorgon murmurs as the garden comes once more into view. That is what gives them sweetness and purpose.
~ Libba Bray
We take such pains to be polite. We never say what we mean. For all it matters, we could greet each other and speak only of cheese - How was your Limburger, miss? Salty as a ripe Stinking Bishop, thank you. Ah, very cheddar, miss. I'll have your Stilton brought to your Camembert, then. - and no one would likely notice.
~ Libba Bray
Why was his grief more powerful than his love? Why couldn't he find it within himself to fight back? Why am I not enough to live for?
~ Libba Bray
What was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?
~ Libba Bray
He loved her very much. She inspired his work. He used to say, 'There is no meaning but what we assign to life, and she is my meaning.
~ Libba Bray
There is no greater power on this earth than story....
~ Libba Bray
There is no meaning but what we assign. We create our own reality. I can live with that.
~ Libba Bray
There is no greater power on this earth than story. The Diviners by Libba Bray page 407 paragraph 4 sentence 1
~ Libba Bray
That's . . . because I am pathetic. In life as in film, find your niche and work it.
~ Libba Bray
But what was the point of living so quietly... you made no noise at all
~ Libba Bray
Write like it matters, and it will.
~ Libba Bray, NY 2010
Why are you here?" Marian's
~ Libby Fischer Hellmann
An object that has been owned and cherished by other human beings for centuries develops a personality of its own that reaches out to you. It's like an old friend. Do
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
Who you are is not a biological accident. What you are is not a circumstantial accident. God planned both for you.5
~ Linda Dillow
God created our inmost being and fashioned us in our mother's womb so that we might be equipped to fulfill the plan that He set out for us even before we were born. Who you are is not a biological accident. What you are is not a circumstantial accident. God planned both for you.
~ Linda Dillow
Consider the work of God, for who is able to straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity be happy, but in the day of adversity consider — God has made the one as well as the other so that man may not discover anything that will be after him. (Ecclesiastes 7:13-14, NASB)
~ Linda Dillow