Quotes About Meaning

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

People like to say how much they like stuff, but with 'The Sunset Tree, ' people shared stories about what it meant for them. And that stuff's so humbling and amazing.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.

You have to trust the words. They do not create anything more than themselves.

I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.

I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.

I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.

Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.