#Meaning Quotes

“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”

“I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.”

“For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.”

“Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.”

“Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.”

“An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

“Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.”

“Every word was once a poem.”

“Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.”

“Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.”

“The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”

“Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.”

“Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?”

“What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.”

“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”

“You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.”

“I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.”

“Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!”

“The message behind the wordsis the voice of the heart.”

“An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.”

“Everything in the universe has a purpose.”

“By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.”

“A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.”

“Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.”

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”

“We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!”

“Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”

“We get to make a living; we give to make a life.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.”

“A room without books is like a life without meaning.”

“My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.”

“We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.”

“There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.”

“POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.”

“We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.”

“No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.”

“I'm sixty-eight years old. What I do now will be read by unborn generations for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. For me, it's not about my work - that is, it's not about Wayne Dyer's work, how much money I make, how well I do, or how well my products do.”

“The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.”

“A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.”

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.”

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

“Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.”

“If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.”

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”

“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.”

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

“To spend life for something which outlasts it.”