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Meaning Quotes
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
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"Nothing is as important as your calling and purpose in life."
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"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
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"The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing."
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"No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything."
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"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
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"Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of life's turbulences stems from willingly capitulating to whatever fomented experiences life brings us without harboring a disconsolate degree of remorse or regret."
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"For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability."
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"If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess."
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"Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation."
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"Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself."
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"A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement."
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"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."
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"And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of day-to-day life, and if we were to die now, our lives would have been nothing but meaninglessness."
"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."
"The true meaning of your life doesn't lie in your experiences, but in your frequent positive interpretations of your past and present."
"For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose."
"Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down."
"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."
"The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else."
"You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose."
"But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words."
"We cannot replicate other people's lives. We must each institute and broker a personalized meaning to our exclusive existence. We must each serve as our own Zen master, awaken to our inviolate personal truth, and strive to fulfill our sui generis (unique) nature."
"Without thoughtful effort and purposeful change, human life does not improve. The key to living a meaningful life is to accept reality. There is no inherent meaning to life just as there is no hidden meaning behind death. Life is limited and death is simply an ending. The only meaning to life is what each person passionately commits their life to accomplishing."
"The word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless."
"The thing about 'colour' is that it's not all about the money or the prestige, but it's about showing what life is all about. Without it..."
"The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end."
"Living deeply requires more than a static vivisection of a person's history and a cold survey of the world. Living a meaningful life entails immersion in the continuous flow of life through passionate thinking, observation, and directed action."
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