1,900 Quotes About Meaning

I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.

Stop opposing the truths.The truth is truth no matter how you take it. It is not going to be changed for your inconvenience.

When did the world begin and how?"I asked a lamb, a goat, a cow:"What's it all about and why?"I asked a hog as he went by:"Where will the whole thing end, and when?"I asked a duck, a goose, a hen:And I copied all the answers too,A quack, a honk, an oink, a moo.

Hygge helps us to communicate what it's like to be human; it is part of a global vocabulary that speaks to our humanity and addresses our basic human need to belong. It's an old word for a new language that we are beginning to explore in order to share values common to us all.

The story will repeat until you get it.

The songs of the birds are the ballad of the forest. And while we still might have the forest without the songs, we would have lost the story. Therefore, at the point that we lose our song we have likewise lost our story.

The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.

We are each on our own quests To find meaning in our livesBut the meaning we seekIs only a reflectionOf everything we have lost before.

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.