#meaning

Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in that mythology lies the key to truth and mystery. Is it an illusion? Possibly, even probably, but I can’t rid myself of the need continually to decipher my own life. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#meaning #stories #life

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#life

August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--" Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't... August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life #meaning #values #life

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. ↗

— Herbert Stein

#forever #meaning #reality #sense #life

Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways cannot be known, oh man." Which is to say, "My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#meaninglessness #life

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#meaning #life

If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#to-understand-its-meaning #life

Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it. ↗

— José Saramago

#words #life

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#inspirational-quotes #introspection #life #meaning-of-life #purpose