Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.” — Richard Matturro Copy Share Image
I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society. — John B. Goodenough Copy Share Image
I love that people are still obsessively trying to understand and decode 'The Shining.' People want to find meaning in things that… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Loneliness is not when you don't have anyone with you...Its when you have everyone, but, not the one whom you want to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's hurt me a lot knowing my family don't care about the important things in my life. So what the meaning of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe people are searching for the meaning of life. I believe they are searching for that feeling of being alive. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Trust the one who could see three things in you: sorrow behind your smile, love behind your anger and meaning behind your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I must act now without knowing the results. Thus, I give my actions their only possible meaning for me. — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
“deep down inside, we don’t seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive. And that’s what the nature of… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
“The will to dream, the courage to act and the hope to win are the stuffs that make life meaningful! Create the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“[Your] search for meaning in the world... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in… — Marshall Vian Summers Copy Share Image
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction. — David Berman Copy Share Image
“When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes… — Frederich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a world where women and men are advised to 'lean in,' run faster and reach higher, Arianna Huffington has courageously redefined… — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives… — John Green Copy Share Image
“As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel.… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers,… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
“What meaning our lives may seem to have is the work of a relatively well-constituted emotional system. As consciousness gives us the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“It was my first-year Latin teacher in high school who made me who made me discover I'd fallen in love with it… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence means there’s always something else, and… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
It's the true meaning of music being a universal language, constantly fighting and going through different boundaries in order for new people… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
“Rituals are the architects of belonging. They take the ordinary and transform it into something meaningful. A morning cup of tea becomes… — Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World Copy Share Image
People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image