Quotes About Meaning

Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.

It is required that we must be fiercely beloved by one individual in order to exist: for Sabbath, Haley was that individual.

I wasn't so special, honey. Except that I was your dad, I wasn't so special.

Sunny wintry days. The idyll of (inner) loneliness. What am I going to do with my life?

I am snatching at things to prove my life.

For it has been revealed to me as a fact, that where the dull-essential nature of our lives is eliminated, such as age, identity, education, employment, place of residence, family ties, daily routine, etc., the thrilling-essential is revealed.

One thing it was not: love at first sight. He didn't believe in such. He wasn't a believer in romance, sentimental coincidences, "meanings" snatched out of the air. He certainly didn't believe in destiny, he was a gambler by nature and you know that destiny is just chance you try to manipulate for your own profit. Yet

And he'd died because that life had mattered to him.

There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning.

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

Having a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason.

If we are not living our lives to make someone else's better, than we are not really living at all.

what are you going to do with all this life

Sólo tú estás. Sólo tu cuentas. Lo demás es un juguete que hay que despedazar porque nos hace daño estar jugando con él a eso de estar sacrificando nuestro mejor tiempo a intereses que no son ni pueden ser nuestros.

Estuve leyendo hace rato a un tipo que se llama Walt Whitman y encontré una cosa que dice: El que camina un minuto sin amor, camina amortajado hacia su propio funeral. Y esto me hizo recordar que yo siempre anduve paseando mi amor por todas partes, hasta que te encontré a ti y te lo di enteramente.

If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others. It's a positive thing.

Living with purpose was hard.

Let's hope it doesn't come to that," Ian put in. "Just fridge yourselves, as Jonah says." "Dude," Dan said. "Do you mean chill?" "Precisely. Just what I said.

One of your first tasks, then, is to ask yourself: why do I care about this? The answer will make you feel entitled to tell your own story—to accept that it is not only worthy of being written down but fit material for literature—something you want to revise and craft until it is beautiful.

The anticipation of an authoritative disclosure of meaning is the means by which that authority is attributed and installed: the anticipation conjures its object.

We do things with language, produce effects with language, and we do things to language, but language is also the thing that we do. Language is a name for our doing: both "what" we do (the name for the action that we characteristically perform) and that which we effect, the act and its consequences.

Zira, lezbiyen-gösterenine baÅŸvurularak neyin kastedildiÄŸi her zaman için kesin bir belirsizlik içinde kalm??t?r; zaten onun anlamland?r?lmas? her zaman için bir derece kontrol d???d?r, ayr?ca özgüllüÄŸü de ancak, kendi bütünsellik iddias?n? çürütmeye yarayan d??lamalarla ay?rt edilebilen bir olgudur.

EÄŸer kan?t yoksa ÅŸüpheli olmak hiç bir ÅŸey ifade etmez...

This is why many people find performances of Shakespeare incomprehensible, because the actors are playing the poetry instead of letting the lines mean something and playing the situation.