1,900 Quotes About Meaning

I shall have the rights to give my statement and to take the meaning is left to you

In today’s noisy marketplace, we need business storytelling more than ever to differentiate brands, products, and services. Too often, companies rely on description alone when marketing something. There’s a tendency to think that describing something is selling something. But it’s not. Description doesn’t create meaning. It creates information. Stories create meaning.

Even Ignatius Loyola wavered. That dark night of the soul, man. No one’s immune. It would all be meaningless if you didn’t wonder and doubt. That’s what makes it real. That’s what makes us people. God could have sent angels to flutter around like fairies, delivering rum punch and manna all day on a cosmic cruise ship. But what would that avail us?

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

It is easy to fall into the trap of feeling that it is only through being miserable that you can be deep and meaningful.

Without a memory, what does experience mean -- or matter?

I think about all the time I spent vigilant, preoccupied, trying to decipher my mother’s relationship with Marcus, Lucy’s relationship with alcohol. It had never occurred to me that both situations were whatever they were, whether I figured them out or not. And it had certainly never crossed my mind that my reaction—my suffering—was mine: something I had come up with, not something I needed to blame on anyone else.

Someone who lived at Square One would be one who knew that much of our achievement is temporary, if not even illusory, and that ultimately we return to the place we started from, if not geographically, then at least metaphorically. We were born with nothing, and left this life with nothing, whatever glories and conceits we created for ourselves.

God is "teaching us something very meaningful" – whether of the unexpected powers of endurance of those affected or the hidden depths of compassion of those who respond.