Meaning Quotes
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If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
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Hero. People didn't even know the meaning of the word.
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The meaning is the ending.
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Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
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The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.
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Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
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The true meaning of the precepts is that one should refrain not only from drinking alcohol but also from getting drunk on nirvana.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Quotes are empty and meaningless. It is how they are used that gives them purpose, how the person repeating those words gives them meaning. Good quotes do not offer the author immortality. Instead, they give the author limitless rebirths on the tongues of the masses.
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The meaning lies in the appropriation.
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
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Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
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I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
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We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.
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I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
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Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.
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The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
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Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
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I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.
