Quotes of: Meaning-of-life Keyword

Loving another person always means opening yourself up for hurt, but it also means opening yourself up for the most amazing feeling there is.

Flawed and Damaged

Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should. And just because you can't, doesn't mean that you shouldn't try.

Guerrilla Business

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Thurgood Marshall

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Ezra Pound

Give your best. It doesn't mean you'll get back best. Rather that doesn't mean you give up giving your best.

10 Alone

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.

Abduction

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

By Any Means Necessary

What do you mean by yuanfen?" She thought for a minute and replied, "It means: that apportionment of love which is destined for you in this world.

Hunger

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

Jitterbug Perfume

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

On the Jellicoe Road

The Bible itself can be used for both good and evil. That doesn't mean it's flawed. It means that it is perfect.

Mickey and the Gargoyle

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse's holiness.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

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

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