Quotes of: Deeper-meaning Keyword

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Man's Search for Meaning

The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.

Major Themes of the Qur'an

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

The Meaning of Sarkozy

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love and Living

Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!

Listen!

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.

The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

I’m not mean to everybody. I’m only mean to people whose intellectual level is awfully lower than mine.

Sky Ghosts: All for One

I’m not sitting around doing nothing. I’m busy petting the cat. Why hasn’t anybody told the philosophers that this is the meaning of life? 

Sleepwalking is restercise

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

The Subjection of Women

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Al-Bukhari - Arabic-English

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream.

Quexistence: The Quest for the Meaning of Existence: Time Dreams

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Whattaya mean you ain’t no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.

Unreasonable Force

The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things…

The Waves of Life Quotes Companion Journal

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No'.

What to Listen for in Music

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

Joe Mantegna

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterp...

Louise Gluck