Quotes About Meaning

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

I was walking this far off the ground,' Rogers said, smiling at the memory and holding his hand a foot above the floor. 'You know, there are special times and there are extra special times. I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.

Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

and a man, half black and half white, on his right arm. That means something in skinhead lore, but I don't know what.

Technology! How can any man who means to keep his sanity go far in such an art?

Now the crucial question no longer seemed to be what life was, but what one was to do with this valueless, yet somehow uniquely valuable life?

No recuerdo donde leí que "la muerte debilita nuestra confianza en la vida al demostrar que al final todo es igualmente fútil ante la oscuridad definitiva". Sí, "fútil" es la palabra exacta.

Désormais, la question essentielle n'était plus de savoir ce qu'était la vie, mais de décider de ce qu'il fallait faire de cette vie sans valeur, et pourtant, en quelque sorte, d'un prix unique.

The Prison-House of Language

Beauty must mean something. God must know something about how beauty works on the human heart. He must have made us that way.

if the Bible was meant to say anything, it was meant to say it within a community,

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

Within the mind, especially the mind under great stress... boundaries of space and time are meaningless, and the... interior self lives by other rules and in other dimensions.

Only that which cannot be expressed otherwise is worth expressing in music.

L'amour, bande de connards ! A quoi ça rime, sinon, de vivre ?

Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.

The text is not inserted into a genetic process in which it is understood as emerging from this or that prior moment of form or style; nor is it 'extrinsically' related to some ground or context which is at least initially given as something lying beyond it. Rather, the data of the work are interrogated in terms of their formal and logical and, most particularly, their semantic conditions of possibility.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?