Quotes About Meaning

All I know is what I have words for." The absence of words is the absence of intimacy; these experiences are starved for language.

Religion provides answers to unanswerable questions. It cannot usually pull people out of depression; indeed

We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.

Quotes are empty and meaningless. It is how they are used that gives them purpose, how the person repeating those words gives them meaning. Good quotes do not offer the author immortality. Instead, they give the author limitless rebirths on the tongues of the masses.

Evangelism is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end: restoring the image bearers' capacity for relationship and worship, where the true Creator God is named, known and blessed.

The deeper and more debilitating form of powerlessness is to be cut off from making meaning.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.

I could have told her that if something is disappointing I know it's not nothing because nothing is not disappointing.

There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

Words are never trite when they're spoken with sincerity

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Hey, he said. It's someday. He said the last word in Greek.

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

You couldn`t always know what would matter to you.

She'd put the envelope Tibby had left for her unopened in her underwear drawer. At first it was so she would see it there, and then she tried to cover it so she wouldn't see it there, but it turned out her underwear was too flimsy to cover anything.

It was a strange thing about college. You felt like you were supposed to be finding your life there. Each person you saw, you thought, Will you mean something to me? Will we figure into each other's lives?

Her private soul read like a poster by her little sister.

What's fun about homonyms is hearig a word in a sentence and suddenly realizing that it has a homonym or maybe two (or three, but that's so rare I don't often think about homonym quartets) and that you haven't thought of that homonym pair or trio before.

I am Rose Howard and my first name has a homonym. To be accurate, it has a homophone, which is a word that's pronounced the same as another word but spelled differently.

Was her "conflict" invented? Was she making an excuse so she could see Jeremy without having to admit it to us?

But I don't belong to any one, therefore attachment to anything means betrayal, self-banishment, renounce self-continuity, self-transcendence; the ego only there to give significance

Scripture exists; human beings interpret it.

I am arguing that science can, in principle, help us understand what we would do and should want - and, therefore, what other people should do and should want in order to live the best lives possible. My claim is that there are right and wrong answers to moral questions, just as there are right and wrong answers to questions of physics, and such answers may on day fall within reach of the maturing sciences of mind.