Quotes About Meaning

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a man?…The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

It's not easy to define poetry.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Our lives take on meaning to the degree that our love and our actions are the same.

Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

she might be interested in me, or what I attempt to represent.

for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.

Likewise, for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.

If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.

One of the most common characteristics of a person who is nearing the end of the first half is that unquenchable desire to move from success to significance.

I began asking myself questions like these: Am I listening for the still, small voice? Is my work still the center of my life and identity? Do I have an eternal perspective as a prism through which I view my life? What is my truest purpose? My life work? My destiny? What does it really mean to "have it all"?

God has a wonderful plan for the second half of your life: to allow you to serve him by doing what you like to do and what you are good at.

how to find meaning and fulfillment in the second half of our lives. In short, how to move from success to significance! Stephen R. Covey, Covey Leadership Center

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each gives the other one meaning.

If what you're doing doesn't make you happy, you're doing the wrong thing.

Likewise, if you read us kvetching about a cartoon-based roller coaster in EPCOT, or that the adjective regal means "fit for a king" and absolutely shouldn't be used in the name of a post-Colonial American restaurant next to an attraction literally dedicated to the republic, it's because those things don't make sense in the stories that Disney has already established. And as Disney says, it all begins with a story.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

I had discovered the "loop-back" phenomenon, and I had penetrated its deepest meaning, which boiled down to this: in birding, as in life, we don't so much find things as things find us.

When we lose ourselves for others we ultimately find ourselves don't we? When we let go of our selfish inclinations, wel live life at a deeper, fuller level than would have ever imagined

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.