#meaning

Life and all that is in it is a gift from the infinite mind / God; And the only way that life can go wrong is by the limited finite mind / Man. ↗

— Eric F. Saucier

#life #living #meaning-of #reason-for #death

Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? That was us. We passed each other all the time, but we never actually stopped in the same place until it was time to get off the ride. ↗

— Diane Hammond

#divorce #imagery #true-artistry #dreams

If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#education #meaning-of-life #suicide-attack #talent #education

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ... ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#experiences #fun #inspirational #life #life-lessons

Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#faith #ivan-karamazov #life #logic #meaning-of-life

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#asking #audience #deconstruction #fashion #gratuitous

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #intelligence #maurice-sendak #meaning #art

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration. ↗

— Paracelsus

#dreams #elements #fantasy #inspiration #may

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #meaning-of-life #plato #socrates #unexamined-life

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#certain #dictionary #find #focused #how