Quotes About Meaning

More than nonfiction, fiction forces us to concentrate in order to find meaning, and therefore deepens our engagement and helps comprehension.

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.

Sometimes I think they are, not that it's ever been said

Maybe I just need to be able to feel the significance of my own existence.

I knew what death meant now. It was conversations cut off.

books as objects are not what books are , it's not what's important about them

Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything.

did an exercise at the end of every day, if I could keep awake long enough, when I tried to imagine the inner significance of everyone who had spoken to me that day. Before

E não é sem assim que as palavras tem canto e plumagem.

Come è che possono togliere i nomi così? Vossignoria non è d'accordo con me? Il nome del posto dove qualcuno è nato, dovrebbe essere sacro

De que tivesse neste mundo um tal nhô Constâncio Alves, o que era que eu ponderava com isso?

This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.

I held it over my heart. Mrs. Worth smiled. "That's where a book should be carried.

A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

Simply being active is not life.

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

life is the vessel we have been given in order to find out what life is really meant to be about.

Are you Jesus? people ask us silently every day. And the answer liturgical spirituality forms in us if we live it with constancy, with regularity, with fidelity, is surely, yes.

Yes, she made me love her. But she didn't mean to. She took by giving... and that makes all the difference.

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five.