Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
Elisabeth Tova BaileyTags: wisdom life inspirational weakness meaning illness disease wasting-time life-changing spiritual-development overcoming-adversity
…breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satan…and even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us.
Glenn DuncanTags: love meaning heartbreak the-devil
Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.
Maya AngelouTags: words society ignorance meaning names root stain
Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erratically in all directions that the chances of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme. Colon, being by nature more optimistic and by intellect a good deal slower, was still at the Clues are Important stage.
Terry PratchettTags: meaning randomness clues
At least tell me you won? And that the scratches and dings were totally worth it."
"Of course. They're always worth it," he says with a hidden meaning that only the two of us could ever understand.
Tags: meaning worth ella micha ella-and-micha jessica-sorensen dings scratches
I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's the same with this film - if 300 people are in a cinema watching it, they will all see a different film, so in a way there are thousands of different versions of "Caché (Hidden)". The point being that, despite what TV shows us, and what the news stories tell us, there is never just one truth, there is only personal truth.
Michael HanekeIsn't it true that there is a rare kind of person who perceives, as does a good dog, that life is doing something meaningful, and who discovers what it is and goes about doing it with a spirit of moderate hustle, and there is a not rare kind of person who perceives none of this and who goes about doing what is necessary in a spirit of aggrievedness?
Padgett PowellThere is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.
Charles Margrave TaylorA place without meaning is no place to be.
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTags: scifi wisdom science-fiction meaning path sci-fi significance place location journey-of-life chi-ro-jin
If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.
AvakruthTags: life understanding meaning confusion compulsion
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