Quotes About Meaning

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

They show their little buds of teeth In peals of causeless laughter; They hide their trustful heads beneath Your heart. And stumbling after Come sweet, unmeaning sounds that sing To you. The father warms And loves the very dirt they bring Upon their little forms.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.

Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Afterwards, the President was heard to mutter, "Blood on his hands, dammit, he hasn't half as much blood on his hands as I have. You just don't go around bellyaching about it." He later told Dean Acheson, "I don't want to see that son-of-a-bitch in this office ever again.

He told friends that this ancient Hindu text—"The Lord's Song"—was "the most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Auch Gott ist immer nur in denjenigen, der an ihn glaubt.

So – you're almost human!" He looked somewhat offended. "I think you'd better say that humans are almost fairy.

Everyone has a purpose in life. Finding that purpose is the passion that drives us." Kailin Gow

Well, that's one way to make me feel special. I'm a find now?" FADE by Kailin Gow

This is what I'm for. This moment.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Gil: Wait. This is Castle Heterodyne . Maybe it's supposed to be on fire. Castle: FIRE?! AAHHH! PUT IT OUT! SAVE MEEEE! Tarvek: ... apparently not .

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there's a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which sometimes gets covered up by all the genuine affection flowing back and forth.

Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn't make anything less valuable.

Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths

Love alone helped us get through life. Without it, life was simply too haphazard.

You meant so much to me... that I couldn't even say I love you.

The man who toils for toils sake does so only to satisfy himself that he has "toiled," as the world as told him to do. And if he does not find Truth, he is content to say that he did the necessary toil and still did not find it, and thus it wasn't meant to be.

This is too big a word for human beings to understand. Like is more useful and powerful than love.

I looked down the line of the wonderfully successful people on either side of me and wondered if each of them had a Coach Wooden who, to quote President Obama, "helped make me who I am." I hoped so, because without Coach, my life would have been so much less. Less joyous. Less meaningful. Less filled with love. Later