When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.
The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at all, it's just the way the meaning of the word has evolved to me. I have to wonder what we did on this planet before religion.
Purpose is what gives life meaning.
It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.
If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.
Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.
Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible.
To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.
I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.
The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.
We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.
maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it
Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?