Quotes about Meaning

The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.

Why are you here? That's the ultimate question that you get to answer with every action, thought, and feeling. There is a calling on your life. What will be your answer? — Oprah

Everybody has a calling. Your real job in life is to figure out why you are here and get about the business of doing it. — Oprah

Every physical encounter has a metaphysical meaning.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

The supreme vice is shallowness.