Quotes About Meaning

Too often, the people who write captions to photographs indulge their own uninformed fantasies about the pictures and what they mean.

This is the idiosyncratic observation of one medical student wandering around a large institution, sticking his nose into this room or that, talking to some people and watching others and trying to decide what, if anything, it all means.

The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly awaiting the blessings of Eastern civilization.

But as Alston Chase put it, "when the search for truth is confused with political

There's no comfort, it seems, in the world of objects.

It helps, of course - let's not get carried away - if you'er a young prince like Mizzy, and you've actually got something of value to destroy in the first place.

This determined, abiding fascination is what she thinks of as her soul (an embarrassing, sentimental word, but what else to call it?); the part that might conceivably survive the death of the body.

I'm moved by the effort, not the object; a demand for something rare and precious can only turn devotion into errand.

Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. "Poly" means "many." And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects.

I would suggest that value is what people perceive it to be, and nothing more.

Little things that are meaningless from a practical point of view may have great emotional meaning through their symbolism. Images and colors are often great motivating forces.

The truth is, nobody's interested in the commodity. People buy feelings.

if living with your spirit, means anything to you at all, if you truly care about it, then guard it with your life. Because Comfort overtakes us all when we're least prepared for it. Comfort makes cowards of us all.

What most people need, then, is a place of community that has purpose, order, and meaning.

Once you fully understand the relationship every owner must have with his or her business if it is to work, I can assure you that your business and your life will take on new vitality and new meaning.

But before you can determine what that role will be, you must ask yourself

form is only a beginning. It is the combination of feelings and a function; shapes and things that come to one in connection with the discoveries made as one goes into the wood that pull it together and give meaning to form. James Krenov A Cabinetmaker's Notebook

Quality is just a word, and an empty word at that, if it doesn't include harmony, balance, passion, intention, attention.

He needs to know why he's doing what he's doing.

Work is done for work's sake alone, forsaking any higher purpose

The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.

Porque el tiempo es vida, y la vida reside en el corazón. Y cuanto más ahorraba de esto la gente, menos tenía.

Time is the very essence of life itself, and life exists in our hearts.