#meaning

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#meaning #passion #life

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#believe #expression #faith #lies #lives

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#composition #example #expose #for example #i

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. ↗

— Carl Jung

#along #balanced #better #cannot #come

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

— Carl Jung

#happiness #lose #meaning #sadness #were

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

— Carl Jung

#least #life #meaning #more #than

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. ↗

— Leon Kass

#late #life #meaning #notion #science

Everything on the radio is crap...It's fast food for your ears. It doesn't make you think. It isn't even about anything - not anything real. Don't you think music should say something? ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#music #food

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#civilized #concept #generation #history #implies

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#federal #first #house #hundred #meaningful