Quotes About Meaning

Beloved, Dearest One: How I long to shout to the world our happiness. I feel that you and I are the only two people alive in the world - the only people that know the secret meaning of existence. I have no diamond rings, no gifts of love that other lovers have for their beloved. My poetry is all I have to offer you. And so I dedicate my collected verses, 'Poems of Poverty,' to you, beloved. Morris.

when Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!

All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world." "Without language of thought, how can you understand anything?" "Who knows, maybe by whistling?

The meaning is the ending.

Live your life whether it is easy or not. Remember that there will be a moment where all of it will be of value.

It would have impacted my choice making to hear the true meaning of my existence. I was an intelligent individual who would have benefited from the concept of thought creates reality.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Underlying all true poetry there is a philosophy of life.

The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Or perhaps it has another form that only you can see and imagine. What story does the simple stone tell? Where did it come from? Isn't it like stones you yourself have picked up on your travels? Why do we keep such things? Reminders of all that has gone before, perhaps they keep us.

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love. —ANNE LAMOTT

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

To truly redefine success we need to redefine our relationship with death.

Y cada día el mundo te arrastrará de la mano, gritando: «¡Esto es importante! ¡Y esto! ¡Y esto!». Y cada día es cosa tuya apartar tu mano con fuerza, ponerla en tu corazón y decir: «No. Esto es lo que es importante».   IAIN THOMAS

Our eulogies are always about the other stuff: what we gave, how we connected, how much we meant to our family and friends, small kindnesses, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh. So why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things our eulogy will never cover?

Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living.

No eres tu cuenta bancaria, ni tu ambición. Tampoco eres ese montón de arcilla fría con una gran panza que dejas atrás cuando mueres. Ni eres tu colección ambulante de desórdenes de personalidad. Tú eres espíritu, eres amor.   ANNE LAMOTT

Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

It's not 'What do I want to do?', it's 'What kind of life do I want to have?' 

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

Para nada serve esse amontoado de acontecimentos sem sentido ao que ordinariamente se dá o nome de experiência. Apenas, sagrada e triste, contém ela, em si, a dor, as lágrimas, a exultação e os extravios — enfim, o bem e o mal misturados que implicam, necessariamente, toda e qualquer história de homem.