Quotes about Meaning
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book;… in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
— Ravi Zacharias
I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.
— Ravi Zacharias
If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.
— Boots Riley
When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
— Marianne Williamson
A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
— Ann Voskamp
I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.
— John Eldredge
I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.
— Julie Andrews
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
— Samuel Johnson