Quotes About Meaning

Sometimes God needs a sacrifice. Sometimes the road is complicit. No life is sacrosanct.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we lived. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.

From a mindful perspective, however, uncertainty creates the freedom to discover meaning. If there are meaningful choices, there is uncertainty. If there is no choice, there is no uncertainty and no opportunity for control. The theory of mindfulness insists that uncertainty and the experience of personal control are inseparable.

I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

Senseless, you say? Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

I'm going to a dance." With Becky?" No, with Alexander." Who's Alexander?" The love of my life!

I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

Quite the contrary, it was an act of disdain for the complicated interchange known as conversation: for its vagaries, lost and meandering trails, half-understandings, and mysterious clarities. For the meaning of a pun is clear, all too clear. It demands a leap in understanding, to the exact place the punner demands.

I should not want to live unless I could live to do some good to others.

and she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

She is not a toy, Mr. Towns, she is an airplane.

What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

Depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

No me vengan con que es poético ladrarle a la luna, poéticos son mis huevos y no les ladra nadie.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

And she thought if you don't have the desire to fight or wait for something there's no reason for being on earth.

Most of England would consider him fortunate, and Thaddeus had always agreed. But in this moment, on this moonlit night, he felt as if he had only just discovered what it meant to be truly blessed. It was to be loved.

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Erano sette ore che essi conversavano, e non s'erano detti nemmeno la settima parte delle cose che avevano da dirsi.