#meaning

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#dream #dreams #enjoy #enough #envy

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning. ↗

— Katy Perry

#girl #i #meaning #quirky #songs

Man - a being in search of meaning. ↗

— Plato

#man #meaning #search

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#come #materialism #meaning #will

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#agree #american #american politics #black #black hole

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#deeper #discover #i #i think #meanings

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones. ↗

— Jon Porter

#burial #congress #ensuring #families #i

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#artist #chaos #confusion #disparate #frame