Meaning Quotes
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.
There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him
Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
When I use a word, ’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.
When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.
Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become.
Life is less about finding and more about seeking.
You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.
