Quotes About Meaning

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

Sighing, he paused a moment as if to take in my essence or to gather his wits. As he had no wits to gather, it must have been my essence giving him pause.

A reflection of their story: imperfect, but to him the most beautiful of stories.

Intelligence once meant more than what any artificial intelligence does. It used to include sensibility, sensitivity, awareness, discernment, reason, acumen, and wit.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.

How much of the "good death" is for the person dying and how much for the person helping him?

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope we all can achieve… the hope that resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope we call all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Hope is an abstract word. In fact, it is more than just a word; hope is an abstruse concept, meaning different things to each of us during different times and circumstances of our lives. Even politicians know its hold on the human mind, and the mind of the electorate.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thing so complete has its own beauty. I shall not try to emphasize the point. I am only explaining why I was dissatisfied then and have been ever since. I speak of that only that you may understand why I have been impelled to try to tell the simple story over again.

the desire to say words overcame him and he said words without meaning, rolling them over on his tongue and saying them because they were brave words, full of meaning. "death," he muttered, "night, the sea, fear, loveliness.

the desire to say words overcame him and he said words without meaning, rolling them over on his tongue and saying them because they were brave words, full of meaning. 'death,' he muttered, 'night, the sea, fear, loveliness.

Their bodies were different as were the color of their eyes, the length of their noses and the circumstances of their existence, but something inside them meant the same thing, wanted the same release, would have left the same impression on the memory of an onlooker.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

It is a great misunderstanding to want to discover something worth living for.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

It's fine to sometimes use these archetypes as a conduit to get information from the depths, but I recommend that you mostly use them as a conduit to bring clarity and equanimity to the depths. Become fascinated with how they move, and less tripped out with what they mean.

A rose may be a rose may be a rose; but not this one. Clearly it stands for something more.

When the gravity of death first touched me, I'd found preoccupation with the minutiae of daily life meaningless. If we ultimately die, and turn to dust in the ground, should it ever truly upset us if the floor hasn't been swept quite recently enough.