#meaning

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside. ↗

— Stuart Chase

#believe #difficult #find #habits #hard

Omitting the section of the Pledge that affirms these beliefs strips the message of its meaning. More than any political connotation, this is why the Pledge of Allegiance is more than incomplete without the words 'under God' and 'indivisible.' It is also empty. ↗

— Dan Coats

#allegiance #also #any #beliefs #connotation

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless. ↗

— St. Jerome

#attached #meaningless #name #who #without

What was meaningful? What was meaningless? What did it mean, to amount to something? What type of life, was worth living? Was it better, to make a ton of money, and have a fucking goddamn Mercedes, or whatever the fuck kind of car it was, to be a lawyer with a ‘serious’ job, and to have ‘amounted to something,’ or was it better to just be a waiter, and work the evening shift, and have your days free to goof off with your roommates, your friends, to go to meditation, to take some time to reflect, and enjoy life, and to not always be in such a big goddamn rush to get somewhere? ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#financial-success #life-s-meaning #success #the-meaning-of-life #life

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightenment #life-s-greatest-answers #life-s-purpose #living-the-question #meditation

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#each #him #himself #life #look

Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images. ↗

— Peter Redgrove

#meaning #nature #reality #symbols #life

Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error. ↗

— John Andreas Widtsoe

#religion #truth #life

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer. ↗

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#meaning-of-life #reading #life

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace. ↗

— A. Powell Davies

#life #meaning #peace #reverence #life