Quotes About Meaning

He reflected that what is important is not things, but the meaning we give to things. Sooner or later death comes for everyone. More important than putting off death, is giving it a meaning.

L'importante non sono le cose, ma il senso che noi diamo alle cose. Prima o poi la morte attende tutti. Più importante del rimandare la morte è darle un senso.

Una madre venduta, comprata, battuta, non riuscirà a comunicare il senso della vita, perché non lo possiede.

The most precious thing I have to give is my time.

It was a fruit relationship, perhaps symbolizing sex.

A signpost doesn't in and of itself represent the way to the village. We have to learn how to take it.

Freedom is a dangerous word, just because it is an inspirational one.

the unexamined life is not worth living. It has insisted on the power of rational reflection to winnow out bad elements in our practices, and to replace them with better ones.

The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences' he wrote. 'No one can say that the O's roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or a girl's breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things

Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.

Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our ultimate source of meaning and happiness, and of power over suffering and disappointment.

Would you really have...?" said Julien. "Almost certainly," I said. "I have deep-seated problems with authority figures." "But you are one!" "I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.

A private face behind every public mask, a hidden meaning peeking through whatever words they choose to share with you.

Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

More of us should try turning a break into a proper adventure with a healthy dose of purpose and meaning. It almost guarantees a lifetime of memories. You could follow a river from source to sea or start a trip in one location and then head to another, exploring along the way.

We must put an end once and for all,' said Trotsky, 'to the Papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life.

One might—if one were, say, a gay sex writer—make a case that there's still a vibrant role for queer dirty words. While highly commodified mass-market DVD porn and its kinkier "specialty" cousins shows how sex looks , erotic texts are still the best mode to convey how sex—and its pesky cousin, desire—feels, and what it all means.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

Hands have their own language.

I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

he felt that his life was nothing more than a light that would blink once in the history of the universe and then be forgotten.

I like stories very much," the priest said. "They help me understand myself better.

Pain is proof of something worthwhile.