Quotes About Meaning

Beyond that box camera he saw in a shop window in Chicago in seventh grade, Dad has never wanted anything, as far as I know. He still coos over the tennis balls and Old Spice we give him every birthday, Father's Day, and Christmas. And yet he understands the symbolic power that an earned object holds.

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

The best kinds of stories are made up out of little bits of truth and stretched into a pleasing shape.

I suggested that my patron goddess should take sensual pleasure, though I didn't put it quite in those terms.

We create our own omens, I think, and then mystify ourselves trying to understand their significance.

No, sarcasm aside, life is always worth living. Even when sometimes it seems like more trouble than it's worth. Oh, who am I kidding? It's when it seems like more trouble than it's worth that I want it the most. I mean, isn't everyone like that?

Perhaps my existence was pointless in any grand scheme of things, but it kept me entertained.

as is well known, it is those with the least to say who use the most words, which is why, as the reader has no doubt observed, this historian endeavors, without exception, to limit his use of words to the absolute minimum required to successfully convey the desired thought.

He met with an incident." "You mean an accident." "Oh no, my Lord. There was nothing accidental about it.

Have you never understood more than you could put into words? Many people only have their slogans--but they respond because the slogans are true and touch a spark in their hearts and their lives. And as for the ones who don't want to think for themselves, we teach them to anyway.

No, sarcasm aside, life is always worth living. Even when sometimes it seems like more trouble than it's worth.

Psychological flexibility is the ability to feel and think with openness, to attend voluntarily to your experience of the present moment, and to move your life in directions that are important to you, building habits that allow you to live life in accordance with your values and aspirations. It's about learning not to turn away from what is painful, instead turning toward your suffering in order to live a life full of meaning and purpose.

Does the client experience life as merely imposed or rather as something he or she can author in a meaningful and ongoing way?

Getting your money's worth is not enough. Get your heart and mind's worth.

Every gift is edged.

Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they see how those others are deceived and made into fools because they chose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.

Language changes over time. Meaning twists. Mistakes compound with each transcribing. Even those stalwart sentinels of perfection—numbers—can, in a single careless moment, be profoundly altered.

It's the ignorant who find a cause and cling to it, for within that is the illusion of significance.

I live in the sky as a pilot, so it has great meaning to me.

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

I was able to make up lots of portementos, literally hundreds and hundreds of words... See, I find that mine don't have any meanings. They're not proper. Although I've got a great dictionary of them. It's like the Cockney rhyming slang or something.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.