Quotes About Meaning

Who are you when you are no longer who you are? What do you do with a self that is no longer your self? If you don't know who you are, how do you go on living? If you cannot live as yourself, who and what is it that you are living for?

I believe, completely, that life is about connection; that nothing else truly matters.

Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

Jesus' example of servant leadership sets him apart from so many historical religious leaders. He was not a God who lorded it over his followers and demanded they follow him or coerced their obedience through authoritarianism and fear. Instead, he called them to the excellence of holiness and yet lovingly served them in order to win their hearts and show them the means of reaching others' hearts as well.

Your one life is a great tale, one facet of God's continuing narrative within the world.

The message of the gospel didn't begin with death. It began with a world-startling life, the birth of God as a flesh-and-blood baby who lived out thirty-three years of robustly human life. The man Jesus showed us what it meant to live as creative, loving, constructive children of God, our Father.

You make sense of a world that is senseless. You gave me space boots so that I could walk on other planets. Without you, I'm lost. There's no left, no right. No tomorrow, only miles of yesterdays. It doesn't matter what happens now because I've found you. That's why I'm here. Because of you. You who I love. My best friend. My brother." Hector

Do not treat worst the one you love best. I hear you, Oddrún. But that still leaves a question the saga does not ask. It may be that the sealwoman had it in mind that an answer should be sought to this, too. Is it by the wanting that we measure love, or by something else?

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Without knowing how to calculate the odds on such matters, it seems improbably to me that God would have whispered the meaning of my life into the ear of some guru or authority.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

Lives in stories have direction and meaning. Even stupid, meaningless lives, like Lenny's in "Of Mice and Men," Acquire through their places in a story at least the dignity and meaning of being Stupid, Meaningless Lives, the consolation of being exemplars of something. In real life you do not get even that.

and in that wink I understood there might be grown men in this world who actually get a spark out of life.

If the evangelist was right, this life was nothing more than a waiting room for the next. The only thing on earth that mattered was placing your reservation for eternity.

Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.

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Christmas: It's the only religious holiday that's also a federal holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone else can sit at home and reflect on the true meaning of the separation of church and state.

If one word can mean so many things at the same time then I don't see why I can't.

the universe saying, I give this man just to you. I give you him wondrously, imperfectly made.

It has a strange way of making sense," Ruth whispers. Mr. Bell nods. "The mis-arrangement of words suggests reincarnation. It suggests multiple, endless readings.