Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with
- Ann BlissEvery man`s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
- Ernest HemingwayWhen a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective
- Arundhati RoyThere is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
- Anaïs NinThe moment you think you understand a great work of art, it`s dead for you.
- Oscar WildeIf death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
- Chuck PalahniukThe way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch AlbomElves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
- Terry PratchettThe story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isn't a story of conquest and rule. Enacting it doesn't give them power. Enacting it gives them lives that are satisfying and meaningful to them. This is what you'll find if you go among them. They're not seething with discontent and rebellion, not incessantly wrangling over what should be allowed and what forbidden, not forever accusing each other of not living the right way, not living in terror of each other not going crazy because their lives seem empty and pointless, not having to stupefy themselves with drugs to get through the days, not having a new religion every week to give them something to hold on to, not forever searching for something to do or something to believe in that will make lives worth living. And '“ I repeat '“ this is not because they live close to nature or have no formal government or because they're innately noble. This is simply because they're enacting a story that works well for people '“ a story that worked well for three million years and that still works well where the Takers haven't yet managed to stamp it out.
- Daniel QuinnThe least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Gustav JungDo you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who`ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you`re in the wrong house, that`s what it means.
- Henry YoungmanSo many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they`re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they`re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Morrie SchwartzAs for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life
- Napoleon Bonaparte