Mostly we tell the story of our lives, or mostly we’re taught to tell it, as a quest to avoid suffering, though if your goal is a search for meaning, honor, experience, the same events...

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.

In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough...

The Natural Law of Cause and Effect. (KARMA) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Our world will be a much better place to live, if such natural law of cause and...

Wakati mwingine inaweza kuonekana kuwa kadiri unavyozidi kujitolea kwa ajili ya watu wengine ndivyo unavyozidi kuwa maskini, lakini hii si kweli. Huduma kwa ajili ya watu wengine huleta maana fulani na ukamilifu katika maisha yetu...

Life is easier lived when lived for others.

She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark – what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his...

You make me so happy I could frown. Let us dance like two rocking chairs at a KISS concert, and let us kiss like two people named Sam Asmas who’ve just discovered the meaning of...

What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring...

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.

When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

There’s no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the idea of him, and he thought maybe that was why he had this...

who would expect less?” she said. ” You’re a Wiggin.” ” Whatever that means.” He said. ” It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.

The definition of ‘Employment’ by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

The truly adult view […] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The thing is to sift outthe important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bringhints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil forthe life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake...

When you can live forever what do you live for?

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word ‘understanding.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”Aristotle

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems...

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

If you’re not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more…

To ask, ‘How do you do it?’ is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a ‘how’ if there is a big enough ‘why’.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Because of our fear that we are merely excited matter and the consequent grudge that we hold against the universe, we feel lost and alienated, like a refugee far from home in a universe that...

Qualcosa che ci sfugge deve pur restare… Perche’ il potere abbia un oggetto su cui esercitarsi, uno spazio in cui allungare le sue braccia… Finche’ so che al mondo c’e’ qualcuno che fa dei giochi...

Look everywhere. There are miracles and curiosities to fascinate and intrigue for many lifetimes:the intricacies of nature and everything in the world and universe around us from the miniscule to the infinite; physical, chemical and...

When I say something, I mean what I say, despite what a dictionary says I mean. Meanings of words are slaves that I put to work constructing my pyramids of thought.

Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play...

This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one. I want people to know more than anything — gay, straight, whatever — just how cool Willie is and … his way...

Both as workers and as consumers, we feel we move in channels that have been projected from afar by vast impersonal forces. We worry that we are becoming stupider, an begin to wonder if getting...

Exercising a spiritual gift without showing true love is meaningless.

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more...

If love and beauty were easy to find, they would not exist.Chaos and sadness exist in order for you to find the love and beauty in them. So that love and beauty mean something.It’s meant...

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

Defunctus adhuc loquitur” (Hebrews 11:4). Thanks to language, there is meaning, there is truth.

Everything we do and think has consequences and everything is connected by this web and has a meaning. When we touch the web on one side of the world, it ripples through it to the...

If you put it as ‘complex nervous systems’ it sounds pretty deflationary. What’s so special about a complex nervous system? But of course, that complex nervous system allows you to do calculus. It allows you...