“Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Horror, terror, anxiety, I think they're all wrapped in psychological turmoil. It's how we teach each other and our children how to… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning.… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
“A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“... meaning where meaning is genuinely to be found — in families, in friends, in the passage of seasons, in nature, in… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“A crucial point here is that understanding is not only a matter of reflection, using finitary propositions, on some preexistent, already determinate… — Mark Johnson Copy Share Image
Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c)… — Max More Copy Share Image
“We humans appear to be meaning-seeking creatures who have had the misfortune of being thrown into a world devoid of intrinsic meaning.… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“To be more precise... death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“The Lotus opens. Movement from earth, through water, from fire to air. Out and in beyond life and death now, beyond inner… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of… — Elena Mauli Shapiro Copy Share Image
YOU!!! MY MEANING OF LIFE IS YOU.. MY DESIRE OF LIVING IS YOU.. THE GIFT OF YOUR HEART,YOU GAVE ME.. MADE ME… — Atul James Copy Share Image
“...we, and I mean humans, are meaning makers. We do not discover the meanings of mysterious things, we invent them. We make… — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
You all have gifts and talents that make you different, unique, special. When you try to impress someone by acting like someone… — Tom Krause Copy Share Image
I love you more than anything, anything in the world, when I saw you I cried, cause I saw your beautiful eyes,… — Rafael Martinez Copy Share Image
“to see beauty is to learn the private language of meaning which is another's life - to recognize and relish what is.… — Nigel Davis Copy Share Image
“Sheridan’s eyes fell to the watery gateway as he begrudgingly donned the novel wetsuit and pulled on the crown of arc lamps.… — Phillip White Copy Share Image
It was a dream for Kante to make it to the Premier League, coming from where he came from, and the Mini… — Antonio Rudiger Copy Share Image
“I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was… — Kyp Malone Copy Share Image
I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“How will people remember you when you are gone? And for how long until they forget? Were you selfish or selfless? A… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“I think about the Old Ones, that they have a past but no history. I think about the inevitability of death, and… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
We engage in the public institutions of work and school and club and team, because it is there that we find meaning… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work.… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings.… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
No one has actually ever been in love; we say it to people but don't actually know what it means. Love Is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is Zen? Zen means doing anything perfectly, making mistakes perfectly, being defeated perfectly, hesitating perfectly, doing anything perfectly or imperfectly, perfectly.… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Most of us think that we are 'better than average' in most things. We are also 'miscalibrated,' meaning that our sense of… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the floor beside the spare pillow that had tumbled from the bed in her sleep was a single yellow flower. Five… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Defined the meaning of friendship, it isn't based on how many secrets you share,isn't how well you get along nor how much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that… — Dinah Lenney Copy Share Image