Quotes About Meaning

stayed. I feel like life happens to other people, and I drift in and out of their lives without ever making any kind of impact. I want to matter to someone.

Asaka: Because I'm a hero of justice. Wataru: Eh... Asaka: AS far as you're concerned, that is.

Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.

Symbolize and summarize.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.

Once you had read the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, you knew that everyday life was psychopathology.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Power

What the present generation wants is what all generations have always wanted—a meaning, a sense of what the world and life are—a chance to strive for some sort of order.

As Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference

The pursuit of happiness is never-ending; happiness lies in the pursuit. Confronted

Since representatives of formal agencies judge leadership according to their own criteria, evaluate what is good or bad in the community according to their own standards, and understand life in the community only when interpreted according to their own code or standards-it is crystal clear that they don't know the meaning of indigenous leadership, let alone the identities of these natural leaders...

in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.

Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

Can something be created in language independently of the people who use the language? Can language become a self-replicating system or …' I'm drunk, I suddenly realise, so I shut up. But

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve

One's purpose is Love.

Here was a task with boundaries and purpose, a small thing that made sense. A small thing I could do well.

We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things. —ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

The longer you look at the idea that we read the Bible to find new meanings, the sillier it becomes. We read and return to the Bible not (just) to find something new but to hear something old, not to discover something fresh but to be reminded of something ancient.

we need to learn to tell the story that makes sense of Jesus. Not a story that we ask Jesus to fit into.

What we are looking for in reading the Bible is the ability to turn the two-dimensional words on paper into a three-dimensional encounter with God, so that the text takes on life and meaning and depth and perspective and gives us direction for what to do today.