Meaning Quotes - Page 5

One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.'
'But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...'
'Life won't leave one alone as it is.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

Blessed are the doubters: for they shall not be easily fooled.

I am happy.

I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.

I am happy.

Were all trying to find meaning to make sense of our realities; in search of happiness within,
Without realising our happiness within; is the only reality that gives life a meaning.

photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.

The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure for our listlessness is to be out within the invigorating wind. The cure for our uselessness is to take back up our stewardship; for it is not that there has been no work to be done, we simply have not been attending to it.

Purpose declares that the trajectory of my existence and the course of human history were intentionally set to collide at this precise moment in time because what I have to offer human history is desperately needed at this precise time.

To say that my existence is entirely inconsequential is to utterly ignore the amazing reality that life is a masterful story penned by a brilliant God who wrote me into the story in such a way that my absence would literally diminish the whole of the story.

I'm left with the pages of my life just turning,
The story being filled slowly day by day,
But the end is approaching and it is out of my hands,
Hopefully I will reach my climax,
Hopefully I will be able to draw my conclusions,
Until then …
All I can do is just turn the page

Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.

Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.

Don't sign your name
between worlds,

surmount
the manifold of meanings,

trust the tearstain,
learn to live.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Man’s desire is to know the mind of God.

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.

The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.