Quotes About Meaning

Without us the writer's words would be meaningless, without the writer we would be stranded in half-lives.

Die Vielschichtigkeit der Welt und das Verworrene der Beziehungen in ihr jagt uns allen den Schrecken des Unabsehbaren ein, da täte Klarheit schon ganz gut. Doch was bedeutet Klarheit, wenn die Verhältnisse immer undurchschaubarer werden?

Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard? Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.

She barely hid a smile. "That's a wizard's answer if I ever heard one." "Meaning that mages deal in double talk?" His grin was impish. "That's one of our two occupational hazards." "And what's the other one?" He laughed. "A deplorable tendency to meddle.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

The nature of existence is founded upon cooperation, and everything occurs for a distinct and significant purpose on all levels of reality.

Is it enough for people to simply enjoy their work without finding it meaningful or being passionate about it? I think it is. In fact, I would prefer to completely rid the concept of meaningful work as the gold standard, and replace it with a new one: doing satisfying work that meet one's needs.

Once you get into the habit of falling in love you will find that it happens quite often and means less and less.

And you're probably spending too much time in a job that doesn't mean anything to you. A person who can't make a choice often works far below her capabilities to avoid making a commitment and to send out the message that her present job is only temporary.

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

You just have to forget whatever you were taught about "meaningful work" and start noticing whatever has meaning to you.

Maybe coming up with ideas is just the way your brain dances. Instead of thinking "This could be a great opportunity for success!" why not enlarge the meaning of "opportunity" to include the Good Feeling? As in: "This could be a great opportunity for my brain to boogie!

If you were on your deathbed, looking back at your life, what would make you feel happiest and most satisfied with how you lived?

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.

Every incident in the Old Testament was considered to pre-figure in allegory what was to come in the New.

In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the puzzle that is life on earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design. This

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

A life without cause is a life without effect.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.