Quotes About Meaning

I wrote it because we wanted to believe that our lives had some meaning. We wanted to know that we hadn't passed through the world unchanged, and that we hadn't left the world unchanged. We didn't want to come and go from this planet without leaving a mark.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

When one circle is drawn over another like this so that they pass through each others' centers, then an important almond shape, the vesica piscis, literally 'fish's bladder' is formed. It is one of the first things that circles can do. Christ is often depicted inside a vesica.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

He regarded the universe as a cryptogram set by the Almighty - just as he himself wrapt the discovery of the calculus in a cryptogram when he communicated with Leibniz.

Sometimes I think he's as happy as anybody." The words hung in the air a moment without meeting agreement or disagreement: it was as if they both knew secretly that there was no certainty as to what constituted the happiness or unhappiness of another.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

All the things we say. And how little of all the words even touch any reality. Or perhaps they all do if we knew it

How People Learn. If you want people to be able to pay attention, don't start with details. Start with the key ideas and, in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. Meaning before details.

I wasn't interested in society, or ancient people's money troubles. I wanted to know what books really meant.

It was a mystery to me how Svetlana generated so many opinions. Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact. Meanwhile, I went from class to class, read hundreds, thousands of pages of the distilled ideas of the great thinkers of human history, and nothing happened. In high school I had been full of opinions, but high school had been like prison, with constant opposition and obstacles. Once the obstacles were gone, meaning seemed to vanish, too.

It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted to know why Anna had to die, and instead they told you that 19th century Russian landowners felt conflicted about whether they were really a part of Europe. The implication was that it was somehow naive to want to talk about anything interesting, or to think that you would ever know anything important.

But we just cannot overlook the prophecy of Ezekiel wherein he prophesies that God said, "Even I will go and search for them

There's a line at the end of the song that goes 'Golden girl, I'll keep you forever.' And that was the jumping-off point for my own song. Vivi was my golden girl. She was the one I would hold above all others." He looks at Willa. "To this day, that's true.

Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah

her faith has morphed greatly over the years—it has both faltered and deepened. She is more certain now than ever that there is something bigger out there, but she is less sure what it is. God? Allah? Karma?

Bisogna che gli uomini possano essere felici. Ogni cosa ha un senso solo perché gli uomini siano felici. Non è solo per questo che le cose hanno un senso?

Poetry is that which is worth translating. The poem dies when it has no place to go.

Fear is the absence of spiritual connection, meaning it's the relative absence of love, meaning it's the relative absence of light.

It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.