Quotes About Meaning

This is a word that is a pitfall to the most of us whether learned or unlearned. Probably it is the most indiscriminately used word in the language.

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

she felt the presence of a grand design. The awareness that life had meaning beyond the moment brought a feeling of warmth and security to Galia. Doing the right things for the right reasons mattered. Further

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Everything has its poetry. 94

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

The absence of theistic belief... { Defining the word 'atheism' }

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

It was mankind and not the Almighty that had ordered the universe; only a man could look at an accident and call it a creation with Himself at the centre.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

Work is living for me. The point is whether we live in our work.

every life should be a quest to achieve the goal of heaven through a growth in virtue, thereby attaining the power, through grace, to overcome the monsters and demons which seek to prevent the achievement of this paramount goal. It is in this way and with this understanding of the meaning and purpose of life that we are meant to read The Hobbit and it is in this way, and this way alone, that we find its deepest and most applicable meaning.

The sacrifice predicted by Malachias cannot be the Sacrifice of the Cross. The prophet employs the word minchah, which means an unbloody food-offering. The Sacrifice of the Cross, though a true sacrifice, was not an unbloody food-offering. The Sacrifice of the Cross was confined to Golgotha and the Jewish people, and hence was not a universal sacrifice in the sense of Malachias,

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

And you're not, I suppose." Wind Runner's eyes widened with surprise.

So it's just a coincidence that Firestar made his daughter's mate deputy," Thornclaw continued.

purpose, even if he didn't understand what it was.

That could have just been a mistake." Jaypaw felt Firestar's green gaze warm his pelt. "Their apprentices would not be the first to stray onto another Clan's territory." He means Hollypaw!

Death too quickly. Death without meaning.

With this life I give you love. Use it well for all the cats who look to you for protection.

but he couldn't get rid of the niggling doubt that his nephew would ever truly understand the warrior code.

Literally, this is what enthios means - it is the root of enthusiastic - enthusiasmos means having the god/s within, thus becoming god-filled, or one with the god and in a state of participation mystique.

I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one.

What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.