Meaning Quotes - Page 8

Things mean pretty much what we want them to mean.

The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.

But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

Paul Kalanithi

What is most lacking in the modern world of duplications and facsimiles, of endless information and intentional misinformation, is the authenticity that makes life truly meaningful and spiritually rewarding.

Michael Meade

When you strip away all the layers one by one, not much remains to “discover.” You will never find real meaning among your selfish interests, feelings, and aspirations. The answers do not lie within you.

James C. Dobson

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life is Like a Book, You cant Just read the Back, you Have to Dive in and Experience The Story within

Look Im A Cat

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Cormac McCarthy

Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impartient — and meaningless.

Pfister

Time is rarely the limiting factor -- more so, structure often is.

Andy Harglesis

Divine presence gives meaning to what seems to have no meaning

Sunday Adelaja

Too many seek the “good” life, whereas only a life of meaning will satisfy the existential ache within our breasts that begs the question of why we are here, what we are to do with this life, and according to what principles we are to live. This is a question best answered at the beginning, not at the end, of our lives, for the answer will determine not only the direction of our lives but also whether we will die in comfort and peace or in hopelessness and despair.

James Castleton

There is not a “true” happiness and a “false” happiness. Only happiness and meaning. The key to happiness is to realize that it is not the same thing as meaning. The key to meaning is to realize that it is to be found neither in the pursuit, nor in the denial, of happiness. Happiness speaks to our health, meaning to our hope. The former provides for the necessities of life, the latter a reason for living… Happiness is the consequence of properly loving ourselves. Meaning is the consequence of loving others as ourselves.

James Castleton

The journey to faith begins in a yearning for meaning and ends in love. Love is born out of the gratitude of a heart broken over its own sin and mended by grace. I would wish for a heart so broken that my gratitude, and therefore my love, would know no limits.

James Castleton

Levinas describes that faith as crucial to what it means to be human: (...) "its capacity to fear injustice more than death, to prefer to suffer than to commit injustice, and to prefer that which justifies being over that which assures it".

Bert H. Hodges

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdrawal into a subjectivity which refused existence to any reality or law but its own. During these postwar years he had lived in solitude and carefully planned ignorance of what was happening in the world. Nothing had importance save the exquisitely isolated cosmos of his own consciousness. Then little by little he had had the impression that the light of meaning, the meaning of everything was dying. Like a flame under a glass it had dwindled, flickered and gone out, and all existence, including his own hermetic structure from which he had observed existence, had become absurd and unreal.

Paul Bowles

The meaning of life is that it ends

Franz Kafka

No action is safe from meaning.

Karan Mahajan

A poem can't free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of our lives, the fabricated wants and needs we have had urged on us, have accepted as our own. It's not a philosophical or psychological blueprint; it's an instrument for embodied experience.

Adrienne Rich

Thank you.” I’ve said thank you thousands of times in my life. Most of the time I mean it to some degree. There are times when I’ve said it and felt the gratitude behind the words wholeheartedly, but I don’t think I ever understood what those two words truly meant until this very moment. Now I think I need a new phrase because thank you is insufficient in this situation.

Kim Holden

They wanted a list of symptoms: dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations. You could not say, it is a different life trying to nudge this one aside. I am meant to be living that different life. Who would understand that, if she could make no better sense of understanding it herself?

Jean Thompson

I think is sad, how easily we throw around the word without actually understanding the sacrifice behind its meaning. Love in its definition isn't about a strong feeling towards someone, but action.

Rachel Van Dyken

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

Milan Kundera

Often I return to the grave after leaving flowers – tulips, lilies, carnations – to find the heads eaten by deer. It’s just as good a use for the flowers as any, and one Paul would have liked. The earth is quickly turned over by worms, the processes of nature marching on, reminding me of what Paul saw and what I now carry deep in my bones, too: the inextricability of life and death, and the ability to cope, to find meaning despite this, because of this. What happened to Paul was tragic, but he was not a tragedy.

Paul Kalanithi

Does this means something!?- Does it mean that you are again on the same opinion... no reason to ask you... no reason to say it again... it's logical.

Deyth Banger

Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God.

Madeleine L'Engle

Meaning can be found in action.

Andy Harglesis

Definition is a choice.

Andy Harglesis

You will not live the life of royalty, if you don't understand the meaning of loyalty.

Gift Gugu Mona

Search for truth, not for meaning. Meaning comes from the perspective of a person who interprets the truth.

J.R. Rim

The core is harmonic regularity, the outer darkness is random noise, we are in the space between them. Every engine takes advantage of a difference. These two extremes are woven into each other. The eternal now is the processing of meaning.

R.A.Delmonico

God will let you into the battlefield so you can understand the meaning of victory.

Gift Gugu Mona

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Christopher McCandless

The density of meaning is external and context dependent.

R.A.Delmonico

To find doesn't always require to search.

Will Advise

There is even rhythm in being empty.

Miyamoto Musashi

The meaning of life is to make life be more.

Will Advise

Meaning comes from the unknown, from the stranger, from the unpredictable that suddenly knocks at your door — a flower that suddenly blooms and you never expected it; a friend that suddenly happens to be on the street you were not waiting for; a love that blooms suddenly and you were not even aware that this was going to happen, you had not even imagined, not even dreamed. Then life has meaning. Then life has a dance. Then every step is happy because it is not a step filled with duty, it is a step moving into the unknown. The river is going towards the sea.

Osho

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning.

Margaret Atwood

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

Stephen King

Make it simple, but significant.

Don Draper

Noise guides only as light blinds.

Andy Harglesis

Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it.

Catherine Lowell

The biggest catch need not be grandest at all.

Andy Harglesis

Death is the destroyer and giver of sense.

Andy Harglesis

Hippasus’ proof—or at least Nico’s retelling of it—was really so simple that when he finished sketching it out, I wasn’t even aware that we had actually proven anything. Nico paused for a few minutes to let us mull it over.It was Peter who broke the silence, “I’m not sure I understand what we have done.”Nico seemed to be expecting such a response. “Step back and examine the proof; in fact, you should try and do this with every proof you see or have to work out for yourself. ..."He again waited for his words to sink in, and it began to make sense for me. All my mathematics teachers (other than Bauji and Nico) always seemed to evade this part of their responsibility. They had been content to merely write out a proof on the blackboard and carry on, seemingly without concern for what the proof meant and what it told us.“But you should not stop here. Even when you have understood a proof, and I hope you have indeed understood this proof, ask yourself the next question, the obvious one, but as critical: So what? Or, why are we proving this? What is the point? What is the context? How does it relate to us? To answer these questions we have to step back a little. Let me show you—it’s really quite delightful.” Now there was excitement in Nico’s voice.

Gaurav Suri

What distresses us is not loosing life, but losing what gives it meaning.

Raymond Radiguet

Was it possible to find recompense, meaning, connection with others amidst the mess and the muddle ?

Elizabeth Buchan

Talk without the support of action means nothing.

DaShanne Stokes

Enjoy the stillness, sweet snail! Savor the spring breeze while it still means something! Soon enough, like summer tempests your tears will come!

Walt Holcombe

The intellect is a boat which can take us to the very shores of understanding, but once there we must leave it behind in order to grasp true meaning.

Ashavan

If you zoom in far enough, the information is there but it contains no meaning. The meaning emerges as a collective principle of organization.

R.A.Delmonico

100: Live This Day as if It Were Your Last.

Richard Carlson

Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering exception. At that age, everything seemed more open to analogy, to metaphor, than it does now. There were more meanings, more interpretations, a greater variety of available truths. There was more symbolism, Things contained more.

Julian Barnes

The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?

Milan Kundera

It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.

László Krasznahorkai

You wanted to be the cheese,” I said.“The what?" "The cheese, the gooey good stuff that fills in the empty space when a slice is taken away.

Amber McRee Turner

My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe me. Everything is meant.

Ali Smith

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