Quotes About Meaning

From my experience it is always well never to pay attention to what people say, but rather why they say it.

Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything... but an end in itself.

Poate c? pentru lume eÈ™ti o singur? person?, dar pentru o anumit? persoan?, eÈ™ti întreaga lume.

Re?i: ''Volim te'' zna?i isto što i re?i: ''Ti ne?eš umrijeti''.

La muerta del Creador implica finalmente la muerte del creador. Lo cual no impide que Michel Foucault y Jacques Derrida firmen como autores de sus libros...

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

There were only a few stories worth telling, which is why they needed to be told over and over again, until everyone recognized them as his own experience.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

Not to speak would have infused the moment with more meaning than it deserved.

Une seule minute de réconciliation mérite mieux que toute une vie d'amitié.

Funny how "I love you" never sounded the same in different languages. It lost or gained power. In English, it sounded so plain. In Spanish, it became a promise.

I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.

In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college's top essay and poetry prizes, to write about 'the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.'

The symbolism of certain foods trip the nostalgic wire in all of us, whether the context is cultural heritage or geographic location.

We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

I'm always curious what the world is trying to tell story wise.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

My greatest wish for my children is that they fulfill their purpose. I know that all children - and, in particular, mine - are here for a reason.

Everyone tries to decipher what I write as if there's a hidden message and I'm like, 'There's no hidden message.' I don't even put that much energy into things. I wish I did.