Quotes About Meaning

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

From whatever point he starts, whatever path he follows, modern man comes to the same conclusion: behind its visible appearances, life hides a meaning that is eternally inaccessible to penetration by the spirit that seeks for its discovery, caught in the dilemma of being aware that it is impossible to find it, and yet also impossible to renounce the hopeless quest.

The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.

From what we get, we can make a living. What we give; however, makes a life.

The physical course of nature does not merely fail to indicate design, it seems loudly to proclaim its absence.

Arthur C. Brooks

That is, he tells them that to unlock their true potential and happiness, they need to articulate their deep purpose in life and shed the activities that are not in service of that purpose.

Your why is the sculpture inside the block of jade.

My brain hadn't been wired to be motivated by passion, meaning, and purpose," he told me. "My brain had been previously wired to be motivated by fear.

The key, as Colbert and Frankl suggest, is finding meaning in the suffering and sharing that meaning. I

Robert Waldinger, popularized the study even more with a viral TED Talk, "What Makes a Good Life?

It's difficult to describe adequately the depth of the rewards that one enjoys when relationships become your "official" source of meaning and fulfillment. People compare it with finding buried treasure, with the only sadness being that it didn't happen earlier in life.

No one sighs regretfully on his deathbed and says, "I can't believe I wasted all that time with my wife and kids," "volunteering at the soup kitchen," or "growing in my spirituality." No one ever says, "I should have spent more time watching TV and playing Angry Birds on my phone." In my own life, nothing has given my life more meaning and satisfaction than my Catholic faith and the love of my

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left over.

To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point.

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

Women bring some great qualities to work. We bring risk-awareness. We bring a greater focus on relationships. We bring more holistic decision-making than gentlemen do. We bring a more long-term perspective than gentlemen do. We tend to look for meaning and purpose in our jobs to a greater degree than gentlemen do.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.

At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and it's just as important to that lobster, the quality of life that it lives - even if it's not as long - as the quality of your life.