Quotes About Meaning

First of all, simply clawing or breathing at somedragon once isn't real fighting. Small people usually use words for what we mean by that. They might say, oh, "Your mother copulated extramaritally with a black poodle, and from this union you were born." Dragons just attack, once, instead. It's just as expressive.

Therefore science and religion are each necessary, the one to distinguish individualities, the other to bring individualities into unity.

If you knew the meaning of light you would yourself be a light in a dark place.

Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

What's it like to go looking for your soul, only to learn you never had one to begin with?

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.

Length isn't as important as what you say and how you say it.

Yes, pain meant life. But life did not mean pain.

Howie swore translated to "I am strong and mighty in the wind," but which Jazz feared actually translated to "Another dumbass white kid with Asian tats. LOL.

Like life. Last as long as you can. Hold on as long as possible. And there's no shame in losing, because everyone loses. It's just that everyone has a different score. And the scores don't really matter after all. They disappear when you turn off the game.

La cuestión es, supongo, que me volví adicto a leer, si se puede llamar leer a esa forma rara y acelerada de experimentar los libros, demasiada rápida para entender lo que se estaba contando o lo que significaban las frases.

The waste of self and money amused his followers.

Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life

Love does not stand still, as everyone knows; it is always adding to its own shape whether by advance or retreat. Wounds can be absorbed, but only like elements embodied in a story; they are always there, part of the meaning.

Probably no statement attributed to Akiva is more well-known and more associated with him than this one: of the verse "love your neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18)

What, in the end, can we say about Rabbi Akiva? Throughout this book I have tried to keep in mind the words of the novelist Margaret Atwood in the epigraph: "There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

Maybe it was because I'd effectively functioned as an agnostic for a few years already, but it never occurred to me that life without God might have no meaning. On the contrary, among my first thoughts after my deconversion was this: Holy mackerel! Evangelizing people to love, justice, and community is going to be a whole lot easier now that I don't have to convince them to buy a whole set of unbelievable Iron Age myths at the same time!

We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.

Myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all history. In it, history evaporates.