Quotes About Meaning

Neden yüzleri kül gibi soÄŸuk? Varl?klar?n? ölü ÅŸeylerden kazand?klar? için. Biliyorsun, onlar varl?klar?n?, insanlar?n ömrünü tüketerek sürdürüyorlar. Fakat zaman, gerçek sahiplerinden al?n?nca ölüyor. Her insan?n kendisine ait belli bir zaman? vard?r. Ve bu zaman da yaln?zca onda kald?kça canl?d?r, yaÅŸar.

Yes, she thought about death because she had discovered something else as well: there are certain treasures that kill you if you can't share them with others.

Sad je znao da ima na tisu?e i tisu?e oblika radosti na svijetu, ali se svi oni svode u biti na jednu jedinu radost, radost što možeš voljeti. Pa i poslije, kad se bio ve? odavno vratio u svoj svijet, kad je odrastao i naposljetku ostario, nikad ga ova radost nije više napustila. I u najtežim životnim ?asovima ostalo mu je to istinsko zadovoljstvo zbog kojeg se i tada smiješio i tješio druge

FA' CIO' CHE VUOI, questo vuol dire che posso fare tutto quello che mi pare? No, vuol dire che devi fare quel che è la tua vera volontà, e nulla è più difficile.

Jak siÄ™ zastanowisz, to bÄ™dziesz musiaÅ' przyzna?, ?e wszystkie historie Å›wiata skÅ'adajÄ… siÄ™ tylko z dwudziestu szeÅ›ciu liter. Litery sÄ… wci?? te same, tylko zmienia siÄ™ ich zestawienie. Å» liter tworzy siÄ™ sÅ'owa, ze sÅ'ów zdania, ze zdaÅ" rozdziaÅ'y, a z rozdziaÅ'ów historie.

Un día nos dimos cuenta de que faltaba una palabra. Nadie nos la había robado, tampoco la habíamos olvidado. Sencillamente ya no estaba. Pero sin esa palabra no podíamos seguir actuando, porque ya nada daba sentido. Era precisamente la palabra por la que todo se relaciona con todo. ¿Comprende, bella dama? Desde entonces viajamos de un lado a otro para encontrarla de nuevo.

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality,' she said. 'A wrong name makes everything unreal.

Denn so, wie ihr Augen habt, um das Licht zu sehen, und Ohren, um Klänge zu hören, so habt ihr ein Herz, um damit die Zeit wahrzunehmen. Und alle Zeit, die nicht mit dem Herzen wahrgenommen wird, ist so verloren wie die Farben des Regenbogens für einen Blinden oder das Lied eines Vogels für einen Tauben.

Isn't it rather terrible that what brings the pricking behind my eyelids is not old Eddy's death, or even the thought of human mortality in general, but certain strokes of rhetoric – certain alliterations, repetitions, and verbal sonorities which don't hold any literal meaning for me? I'm more moved by literature than by what it describes!

Well, we start with this outrageous idea that the ground of being, existence itself, is a person, and that this person is intimately concerned with each of our lives and desires us to turn our hearts toward him. Once you accept that level of insanity—or faith, as we prefer to call it—then it makes perfect sense to try to discern what God's purpose is for your life through a disciplined process of prayer and self-examination, discernment, as we say.

The question we must ask today is "Do we get Jesus?" or have we substituted false portraits of him in our theology?

Death does not triumph, Life does.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Agatha says that, nowadays, things that people have just written can be almost as valuable as pictures they've painted.

To achieve a just society we have to reason together about the meaning of the good life, and to create a public culture hospitable to the disagreements that will inevitably arise.

Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully...about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can make daily living a masterpiece.

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of.

We tried to trademark proximity, but you can't because it's a word

People who had lived without government were more likely to find meaning in it. On the other hand, people who had never experienced a collapsed state were slow to appreciate a state that had not yet collapsed.

When someone says something, don't ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of." That was his intellectual instinct, his natural first step to the mental hoop: to take whatever someone had just said to him and try not to tear it down but to make sense of it.

I ask them if it ever troubled them to devote their lives, and expensive educations, to a trivial game. They look at me as if I've lost my mind, and Paul actually laughed. "Oh, you mean as opposed to working in some deeply meaningful job on Wall Street?" he said.

The central question posed by Gestalt psychologists was the question the behaviorists had elected to ignore: How does the brain create meaning? How does it turn the fragments collected by the senses into a coherent picture of reality?

a surprising number of the people responsible for them were first-generation Americans who had come from places without well-functioning governments. People who had lived without government were more likely to find meaning in it. On the other hand, people who had never experienced a collapsed state were slow to appreciate a state that had not yet collapsed