#meaning

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning. ↗

— Jeane Dixon

#endowed #lives #meaning #our #our lives

I was looking for what the meaning of life was. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#life #looking #meaning #meaning of #meaning of life

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives. ↗

— Peter Singer

#expensive #generation #live #lives #lot

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. ↗

— Socrates

#knowledge #meaning #meaning of #nothing #true

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance - for a moment or a year or the span of a life. And then it sinks back into itself again, and to look at it no one would know it had anything to do with fire, or light. This is what I said in the Pentecost sermon. I have reflected on that sermon, and there is some truth in it. But the Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it? ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#courage #creation #life #lord #meaning

Being cryptic is an art unto itself. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#meanings #wisdom #art

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ↗

— David Hume

#beholder #evil #god #perception #religion

I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night—in the moments before I pass off into sleep—ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#learning #life #meaning #truth #beauty

He looked around at the perfectly white world, felt the wet kisses of the snowflakes, pondered hidden meanings in the pale yellow streetlights that shone in a world so whitely asleep. "Beautiful," he whispered. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#meaning #beauty