Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death

Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one’s midlife crisis, to the belief that existence consists of an eternal, upward spiral of achievement, dependent on...

But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet...

In modern society the term “no” have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for “Negotiations Open”.

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily...

There’s no satisfactory way of closing the book on this. I think people are well meaning when they say they’re going to move on. But I don’t think it’s realistic.

That’s the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.

People don’t follow words; they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.

unfair” experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life.

God, it’s like reality’s completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can’t...

Make her smile, make her laugh and make her happy; because this is the only Truth, Meaning & Beauty act any human can ever achieve.

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?Look for delusion and truth in thebottom of your own heart.

The real battle for Christians today is not Armageddon, it is the battle for a sensible approach to that ancient library of books we call the Bible. The Bible was written by human beings, with...

A place without meaning is no place to be.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can...

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be...

The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not...

Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’...

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

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

I am the bow of love. I’m also the bow of hate. Same spelling, different pronunciations and meanings. Would you like me to gift wrap my greeting?

These songs tell me I’m not alone. If you look at it that way, music…music can see you through anything.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

How many of those who are insecure seek power over others as a compensation for inadequacy and wind up bringing consequences down upon their heads and those around them? How many hide out in their...

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don’t pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Mean what you say or don’t say it at all.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it’s own essence, whatever its concrete employment and...

Im Grunde sind diese Gedanken ganz ohne Bedeutung. Die Dingen geschehen eben und ich suche, wie Millionen Menschen vor mir, in ihnen einen Sinn, weil meine Eitelkeit nicht gestatten will, zuzugeben, daß der ganze Sinn...

I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It’s the same with this film – if 300 people are in a cinema watching it, they will...

It has a lot of meaning to us. We discuss that quite often.

It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, man should not ask what...

As humans we need each other to give meaning to the word happy!

God made you for a reason and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

But when it joins with the force of the whirlpool it becomes powerful and unstoppable. You must be flexible like the water, feeling the flow of life, tapping into its current. This is the only...

Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them.

A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names.

Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what...

A family is not decided by blood but by bonds.

To be more precise… death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life and about the world, if it is the highest and immutable law about...

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others’ lives.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they’re so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.