Quotes About Meaning

If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we mean, what is the fundamental thing that's given us space in the first place and dimensions of space in particular.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.

The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'

We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.

I've learned, over the years, to go after the parts where I feel I can add something.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

Drinking and partying never appealed to me in lyrics - they don't have a lot of meaning behind them.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

I wrote a song called 'Here on Earth,' and the hook is, 'There's no answers here on earth.' Basically, searching for the 'why' when someone passes away, and I feel really fortunate that my dad lived as long as he did. But no matter what happens or how it happens, it's certainly a stinker.

We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

In short, one can doubt big and important, or small and unimportant, things. One can harbor doubts about oneself, the world at large, or God. What these cases have in common is that they question whether something or someone is reliable, trustworthy, and meaningful—that is, whether something or someone is "true." Doubt and truth, in other words, are about relationships.

Theology must begin and end with the question of truth.

Onions are sacred to the Yezidis, perhaps because they have many layers and are thus "esoteric.")

Like festivals, uprisings cannot happen every day- otherwise they would not be "nonordinary." But such moments of intensity give shape and meaning to the entirety of a life. The shaman returns you can't stay up on the roof forever - but things have changed, shifts and integrations have occurred -a difference is made.

Instead of Freud's famous Interpretation of Dreams it is a book of dreams that interprets us.

A meaningful life depends upon a sense of aliveness and presence, both of which spring from intimate contact with internal body states.

Ultimately, though, Reagan considered human history a comedy– not a trifle or an absurdity, but a solemn story that would end in happiness... because God was the author, and God was good, and that was the kind of story he'd write. Reagan taught me to appreciate the uses of humor, but he also taught me to appreciate the meaning of humor. The world contains more good than bad, more courage than cowardice, and more reasons for smiles than for tears. Laughter is a profession of faith.

What is life except excuse for death, or death except escape from life?' Recall my name with kindness now and then.