Quotes About Meaning

we need to reconsider the meaning of reproductive liberty to take into account its relationship to racial oppression.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

I am not suggesting you shouldn't work hard, but I am suggesting that if you are defining your value by the chase—by your ambition, your work, and your achievement—then you are simply chasing after the wind, and ultimately, it is meaningless.

You can't know what difference you'll make, but you are part of something. I think so. We all have things we're meant to do. People we're meant to care about. We're all meant to matter.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

Truth and reality had come to mean very little when compared to political correctness and political expediency.

Struggle, purpose, accomplishment, and challenge are what truly brings meaning to existence. The ASI's war with the Androms helped bring this into proper focus. Winning

Struggle, purpose, accomplishment, and challenge are what truly brings meaning to existence.

Was I the only person in the world clueless enough to have always thought that AD meant After Death,

Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

And sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.

Klein similarly explained that when Jeong uses the term 'white people' in her 'jokes' it does not mean what it says. As Klein put it, 'On social justice Twitter, the term means something closer to "the dominant power structure and culture" than it does to actual white people.

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an exhaustion caused by a loss of meaning, an awareness that the civilisation was 'no longer accumulating' but living off a dwindling cultural capital. If that was the case in the late nineteenth century then how much stronger is the case today, when we live on even smaller portions of that inheritance and breathe even further away from the sources that gave that culture energy.

The answer that has presented itself in recent years is to engage in new battles, ever fiercer campaigns and ever more niche demands. To find meaning by waging a constant war against anybody who seems to be on the wrong side of a question which may itself have just been reframed and the answer to which has only just been altered.

What is that?" Dad said, looking at the doll. "It's called the Scream," I said. "I know that, but what us it?" Dad said. "Maybe she sleeps with it," I said to Dad as he tucked it under his arm. "Then no wonder it's screaming," he said.

The plague did not lead to Europe's economic collapse. Rather, Europe's currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

Once managers figure out what they mean and why it matters, the issue in question starts to look a lot more measurable.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

The Anglo-Saxons had a great word for the right word, the word that you need right now, when another one simply would not do. That word is wordriht.

One of the most important things we can learn from Scripture is how to see ourselves accurately in the story in which we find ourselves. What story is God telling, and how does it concern us?