Quotes About Meaning

A poem of any length neither can be, or ought to be, all poetry.

Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Having a symbol to represent something is a very powerful way to draw it to you. Symbols work on a deeper level of consciousness than words and bypass belief systems.

you have a meaningful contribution to make to the world….You have a role to play that no one else on the planet could fill. The special contribution you came to make is your life's work. When you are doing that work, you are following your higher path, and your life will be filled with increasing joy, abundance, and well-being.

What kind of books do you want?' the librarian enquired. 'Local history,' I said. She shook her head and muttered darkly, 'They'll be scattered.' I wasn't sure what that meant. It's the sort of thing people say at crematoriums, not libraries. She kept staring at me, so I left without any books.

Put your hands on me. Pretend this means something - Lee Coburn

I lowered myself into an armchair. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust. All that remained of my life was in my lap. I sat for a time thus, as still as the mute objects that surrounded me. How little it all meant, in the end.

Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the kind of things remembered forever after it didn't have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or marriage or birth of a child. It more often was the small things. The sheer joy of summer sunlight on a fragrant flower. The giggle of a toddler. The brush of a lover's fingertips. And the person marks the moment with the flashing insight thinking... This is special. I should remember this

What does any of it matter in the end but who we loved and how we loved them.

We're in that place called "bittersweet." That place, I reasoned when I was a girl, that if you could find it on a map, would be the mountain that sits between happy and sad. The place where you can almost feel God's hand on your head and just know, deep down inside, that there was a good reason for every single thing that happened.

We think legacy is like a balloon being inflated and so we expect to see the results. Truthfully, legacy is more like the air going into the balloon, whether we witness the outcome or not, lives are being touched.

His TED talk on the subject, "What Makes a Good Life?" has been viewed more than 29 million times.

Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His TED talk on the subject, "What Makes a Good Life?

the world can still exist without god but it cannot survive without love.

y supo que si alguna vez había sido feliz fue al precio de una noche como esta en la que la vida terminaba...

when one has searched for these as realities, who desires and what is desired?

dalam diriku mengalir sungai panjang, darah namanya; dalam diriku menggenang telaga darah, sukma namanya; dalam diriku meriak gelombang sukma, hidup namanya; dan karena hidup itu indah, aku menangis sepuas-puasnya

What creature is it that is female in nature and hides in its womb unborn children who, although they are voiceless, speak to people far away? The female creature is a letter. The unborn children are the letters (of the alphabet) it carries. And the letters, although they have no voices, speak to people far away.

I said: 'Go with my blessing if you go Always remembering what we did. To me You have meant everything, as you well know.

There are no coincidences. Only

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Last night, I saw the moon, and I knew Pax was seeing it right then, too. Do you think that if I feel Pax living, then he's alive?

Under the glitzy, glamorous surface of the simplest popcorn flick, there were often hidden depths of meaning.