Quotes About Meaning

Still, there is no law that says all decent things must be permanent. Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

But when I compare the idea that "Yeah, sometimes life sucks, and I have to deal with it as best I can" with the idea that "An immensely powerful being is screwing with me on purpose and won't tell me why" — I, for one, find the first idea much more comforting. I don't have to torture myself with guilt over how I must have angered my god or screwed up my karma, with that guilt piling onto the trauma I'm already going through.

In the chaos of everyday life, it's easy to lose sight of what really matters, and I can use my habits to make sure that my life reflects my values.

It struck me as poignant that my long relationship with my beloved grandparents could be embodied in a few small objects. But the power of objects doesn't depend on their volume; in fact, my memories were better evoked by a few carefully chosen items than by a big assortment of things with vague associations.

According to Aristotle, "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Frankl observed, "In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice." *

When life was taking its ordinary course, it was hard to remember what really mattered.

I agree with writer Gertrude Stein: "Anything one does every day is important and imposing." I love repetition. Doing the same thing over and over makes me feel grounded in my life and makes my actions feel more meaningful.

Purpose? Hope? None of these words seemed right. Then I thought of a line from William Butler Yeats. "Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

I should monitor whatever is essential to me. In that way, I ensure that my life reflects my values.

A "routine" is a string of habits, and a "ritual" is a habit charged with transcendent meaning.

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And a sense of purpose is very important to happiness. But

When life is taking its ordinary course, it was hard to remember what really mattered.

I wasnt political in order to be political

Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.

Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.