Quotes About Meaning

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

The temporary suffering of existence is worth more than the final void of nothingness.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

I learned that objects in our life are meaningless and unimportant. It is the spirit world that is important. Jewelry and fancy homes have no real value. We should judge ourselves through our good deeds.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.

To go through the motions in a perfunctory or self-absorbed manner, no matter how expertly rendered, diminishes the beauty. It's about soul—and service without soul, no matter how elegant, is quickly forgotten by the guest.

Overcoming me with the light of a smile, she [Beatrice] said to me: "Turn and listen, for not only in my eyes is Paradise."

Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

Even the grandest lives come down to a few people and places. Loved ones, your daily work, your neighborhood. I don't mean that in a belittling way. I've been realizing how complete our lives can be with just the few people and activities you most love.

One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, neccissarily.

Nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we loved each other.

Many days and years and people had passed before she understood that the details themselves were the still and sacred things, that there was nothing else, that the curtain of daily life itself was holy, that behind it was only a void.

Eventually Honi asked God to kill him, because he realized he had become superfluous. Which in fact was the entire purpose of life, to live in such a way that one made oneself superfluous. And therein lay the root of the problem. There was no point in any of it, none at all, unless one had plans to leave.

The freedoms that we cherish are meaningless without our commitments to one another: to civil discourse, to actively educating the next generation, to welcoming strangers, to loving our neighbors. The beginning of freedom is the beginning of responsibility.

You can't only think about endings," he said. "There's no point to that. Endings are something you and I will never understand.

I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.

Sbaglio colossale come chi scrive nel risvolto che la poesia consiste nel pensare nella lingua...

To je bila tužna pri?a - re?e. - Je li istinita? - A koja nije? - kimnu starica.

Are you unhappy? Do you feel lost and lacking in purpose? Focus on the needs of others and serve as Jesus did.

when the why we do what we do doesn't permeate in all that we do, our value systems give evidence that we do not have enough truth to successfully support what we do and who we are.

It appears that the reporter has passed along some words without inquiring what they mean, and you are expected to read them just as uncritically for the happy illusion they give you of having learned something. It is all too reminiscent of an old definition of the lecture method of classroom instruction: a process by which the contents of the textbook of the instructor are transferred to the notebook of the student without passing through the heads of either party.

at mid-life the process Jung called "individuation" begins in earnest. It is the process of making those choices that will express one's own unique answer to the problem of death. "If I must die someday, and I cannot do everything, then I must choose what I will do, what matters most, who I will be in the time allotted to me." Figure

Jesus argues that what should be contemplated is not the cutting short of these particular lives, but the fact that life terminates.