172 quotes found
“Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.”
“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
“The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.”
“I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.”
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
“Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.”
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.”
“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”
“All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.”
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
“Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.”
“Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.”
“Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?Look for delusion and truth in thebottom of your own heart.”
“…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.”
“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation, our contact with books, and yet, in comparison, the...”
“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 deserving word, not deserv...”
“Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through our heads anyway because they’re interesting to t...”
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in eq...”
“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a bur...”
