Quotes About Meaning

I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

You don't need a point. The point is maybe that the point is too big to see or work round to on our own

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care all about the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right reasons? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet- for me anyway- all that's worth living for lies in that charm?

The significance doesn't matter. The historical significance deadens it.

Se uma pintura realmente se nos entranha no coração e muda a maneira como vemos e pensamos e sentimos, não dizemos para connosco: Oh, adoro esta pintura porque é universal. Adoro esta pintura porque diz algo a toda a humanidade. Não é essa a razão por que quem quer que seja adora uma peça de arte.

While it does matter what words you use when talking with other people, to an angel it's more about the intentions and energy behind the words.

all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It was on the meaning of the Declaration that battle lines were drawn. As

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Do the times make the leader or does the leader shape the times? How can a leader infuse a sense of purpose and meaning into people's lives? What is the difference between power, title, and leadership? Is leadership possible without a purpose larger than personal ambition?

Literature is analysis after the event.

Myth doesn't mean something untrue, but a concentration of truth.

I am simply asking myself: Why a story at all—not that it was a bad story, or untrue, or that it debased anything. Why not, simply, the truth?

What is history? A record of misery, brutality and stupidity. That'a all. That's all it ever will be.

What I feel now doesn't matter at all? But at what point I am entitled to say to myself, what I am feeling now is valid? After all, one can't go through one's whole life in phases. There must be a goal somewhere

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

Let me tell you a story. I tell stories to prove I was meant to survive, knowing it is not true.

Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.

fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies into meaning.?

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

I wanted the way I felt to mean something and for everything in my life to change because of it.

He drove until emotional exhaustion left him empty as a gourd. Until no tears, no rage, no pity had meaning for him.

Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse.

I echo like a mynah, that's why.

Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse: get that into your head.

I have a suggestion in that case,' said Lymond. 'You two have the orgy, and I'll keep the drinker's headache.