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How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Harriet Lerner

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher (1889 - 1951)

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer
(1902 - 1983)

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.

Graham Clarke

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

Mark Leeper

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Carl Jung, "Modern Man in Search of a Soul"
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)

Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.

Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.
co-founder of Genentech, Inc.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Unknown

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947)

Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
English lexicographer (1858 - 1933)

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.

Leo Braeck

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD)

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It?s not something you learn in school. But if you haven?t learned the meaning of friendship, you haven?t really learned anything.

Mohammad Ali, Newspaper, Daily Herald

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffer
(1902 - 1983)

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we?d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

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