A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.
What is art? (. . . ) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.
Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.
Every moment of living has its own logic, its own meaning.
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.
Essentially, what the most important questions we can ever ask ourselves are, "Who am I? Who are we all? What do we share, and what is our purpose here? How do we discover meaning?" Addressing these questions is the core of Inspirational Psychology.
What is it you want your audience to see? Who is your audience? What does surface signify? Does it carry meaning? Do you fully understand and know what you are doing? WHY are you using encaustic?
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God. ” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God.
Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.
A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.