#meaning

My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments—we hear a word that sticks in our mind—or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly—we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen—or we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station. And if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge from our collection—certain voices would emerge that have been trying to speak through us. We would realize that we have been having another life altogether; one we didn’t even know was going on inside us. And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being real—this clunky day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal. So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#meaning_of_life #moments #experience

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#meaning #forgiveness

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#makes #meaning #meaning of #mind #modification

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#good #i #i think #kind #maybe

There is a profound difference between information and meaning. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#difference #information #meaning #profound

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. ↗

— Halle Berry

#beautiful #beautiful woman #beauty #been #being

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#architecture #chapel #fantastic #feel #get

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#because #believe #better #business #care

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist. ↗

— Bono

#become #being #brother #church #conscience