Quotes About Meaning

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

The mature response to the problem of existence is love.

Manches, was man als Kind erlebt hat, erhält seinen Sinn erst nach vielen Jahren. Und vieles, was uns später geschieht, bliebe ohne die Erinnerung an unsre Kindheit so gut wie unverständlich.

Alte Wahrheiten sind und klingen nicht originell, doch es sind und bleiben Wahrheiten, und das ist die Hauptsache.

Why does a man live? -In order to think about it...

The inside "expresses" itself by way of the symbol.

Consequently possession by the archetype brings meaning and deliverance at once, since it liberates part of the emotional forces that had been dammed up through the development of consciousness and the resultant exhaustion of emotional components.

As in poetry, so in mythology, the figures must submit to the same dual interpretation.

One important consequence of this approach is that the meaning or full activity of a drug can only be worked out and constructed in practice. A drug's effects, in this view, aren't discovered, but nor are they purely invented. Instead, they are enacted.

Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

We all dimly feel that our transient historical identity is the only chance in all eternity to be alive as a somebody in a here and a now. We, therefore, dread the possibility, of which we are most aware when deeply young or very old, that at the end we may find that we have lived the wrong life or not really lived at all.

Adam almost never painted from life. His pictures were transcriptions. The text was harvested from popular culture, lifted from late-night television: phrases repeated aloud, over and over, until they had either shed or gained meaning. There was no judgement and little empathy.

Perception is interpretation.

Speaking' and 'Saying' are two different languages. Speaking discharges resonance. Saying emanates ideas. ( "Words flew away like birds" )

We can question our history with counterfactual queries. "What if" we had rebuffed, accepted or changed certain features in the script of our life? By reviewing the different stages of our personal story, we can find out, whether we have owned our life or just have been lived. ("Was it what life was about?")

I'm less interested in why we're here. I'm wholly devoted to while we're here.

Everyone hopes to go through life and find their burning bush that tells them what they're here for. Some never find it. And some find their burning bush goes away with a little prescription cream.

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.

She brought me a crow's feather...," he whispered.

You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.

And Jaypaw-well, Jaypaw can heal cats." "Thanks a bunch." muttered Jaypaw.

Of course I mean it. I don't talk for the pleasure of hearing my own voice.