Quotes About Meaning

The only ill-chosen word in that sentence was "quasi.

Illness is a spiritual event. Illness grasps persons by the soul as well as by the body and disturbs both. Illness ineluctably raises troubling questions of a transcendent nature-questions about meaning, value, and relationship. These questions are spiritual. How health care professionals answer these questions for themselves will affect the way they help their patients struggle with these questions. We

Everyone was amazed and puzzled. They each heard their own language! "What does this mean?" some asked. Others sneered, "They're drunk on new wine." Then Peter stood up. "People from Judea and all who live in Jerusalem. We're not drunk. It's only nine in the morning.

Quando una persona cara ci dà un libro da leggere, la prima cosa che facciamo è cercarla fra le righe, cercare i suoi gusti, i motivi che l'hanno spinta a piazzarci quel libro in mano.

El humor, esa expresión irreductible de ética.

Così scoprì la virtù paradossale della lettura, che è quella di astrarci dal mondo per trovargli un senso.

La vita non è un romanzo, lo so... lo so. Ma solo lo spirito del romanzo può renderla vivibile.

Los diccionarios solo garantizan una pizca de eternidad...

Quando la vita è quello che è, il romanzo ha il dovere di essere quello che vuole.

Non si ha più diritto di mettersi le parole in bocca prima di ficcarsele in testa? Niente più orecchie? Niente più musica? Niente più saliva? Parole senza più gusto?

Perché le parole hanno una storia, mica ci cadono dalla bocca come un uovo di giornata! Le parole evolvono, le loro vite sono imprevedibili quanto le nostre.

Le nostre ragioni di leggere sono strane quanto le nostre ragioni di vivere. E nessuno è autorizzato a chiederci conto di questa intimità.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

We live in a world of media overload and data smog, where everything distracts us from everything else. Yet underlying this noisy assault, our culture offers us nothing transcendent. No deeper meaning, no abiding hope. In my crisis, every facet of the contemporary world seemed part of a diabolical mechanism carefully designed to keep people from wondering about the real purpose of their endless frantic activity.

You are not going to find the meaning of life hidden under a rock written by someone else. You'll find it by giving meaning to life from inside yourself

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

It's so easy to believe, after everything we've seen, that we live in a cold and senseless universe. But as long as we have a world to live in, as long as we have people to love, we are the lucky ones, Zack. We are the blessed.

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the word assassin is derived from the Arabic hashashin

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

Indeed, feelings don't just matter–they are what mattering means.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas," noted Henry David Thoreau, "but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."7

This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

We can be honest without saying what we mean to say, we can talk about the weather while ignoring the rain.