Quotes About Meaning

Astrid taught me some of the words. I've never forgotten them. One was 'terulya.' It meant deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It's something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

Without time, nothing had meaning. Never before had I understood how crucial the passage of time was to caring about something. It gave it an expiry date, a wick, a rush, a burn. Without it, everything sat in place, dumbly waiting. In

that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.

We give meaning to life based on our point of view. Only wisdom, like the light of the candle, can bring us a complete view of existence. The key to wisdom is doubt! If you doubted a little, you would definitely be less arrogant.

They were called Ontos, after the Greek word for thing, in part because they were ugly.

like textual glossolalia.

To find meaning is to find the connection between ourselves and everyone else. We need to know where we belong and how our efforts affect our world. Whether or not we are people of faith, we are curious about eternal things. Even if we try to shelve our spiritual questions, our subconscious minds continue to wonder.

Books are curious things. When they want to live, they find a way to become part of the lives that need them. From: The Familiar vol. 2: Into the Forest

Books are curious things. When they want to live, the find a way to become part of the lives that need them. From: The Familiar vol. 2: Into the Forest

Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it's true that nothing matters more to us than that.

To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. —Gordon Allport

As I grow in my prayer life, my soul becomes a delightfully cluttered attic, filled with random graces that do not all fit together in some perfectly ordered system. The purpose of some graces will be immediately apparent in my life, but the meaning of others might evade me for a while. I must resist the temptation to clean up the messiness of my graces and must not try to come up with immediate answers for the questions that arise from them.

So often, within the privacy of our inner worlds, we take the difficult thing and make it worse. Our own subliminal hate speech coats our experience and gives an added layer of meaning to things that are already difficult enough.

Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer.

but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

Siobhan dice che se si solleva un sopracciglio, questo gesto può significare molte cose differenti. Può voler dire: "Voglio fare sesso con te", ma può anche essere inteso come: "Hai appena detto una cosa veramente stupida".

The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another, and it comes from the Greek words meta (which means from one place to another) and ferein (which means to carry), and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor.

quod erat demonstrandum, which is Latin for which is the thing that was going to be proved, which means thus it is proved.

Wie ist das jetzt mit der Religion bei dir? Es war nicht Neid. Eher eine Art zoologische Faszination.

Mother used to say that it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

How alike they are, she and her mother, these blank sheets on which men have written their stories, the white paper under the words, making all their achievements possible and contributing nothing to the meaning. She

when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I

I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.