Perhaps it is not necessary to franticly complete a to-do list. Perhaps it is not necessary to overly focus on the future or even focus on the future at all. Perhaps it’s more important to live the moments, to look for the meaning in the simple day-to-day moments.
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Quotes tagged ‘Meaning’
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
There is an old story that after Creation, God was wondering where to hide the ultimate secrets of the universe. The Almighty contemplated: Should I hide them deep in the oceans? No; humans can invent submarines and these secrets can fall into unworthy hands. Should I hide them in the remote corners…
We create the meaning of events. The meaning is and always was artificial. We make it.
It is the responsibility of good leaders to make sure that words remain attached to the meanings and ideals they represent.
If we understand the matter correctly (something that must be assumed here) we can compel a person, or at least help him, to render an account of the ultimate meaning of his own actions.
If music was studied, recreated or now-first-expressed emotion, why was he listening with such strained intensity, as if to learn some answer, solve some important life-riddle? Wasn't it the case, in fact, that he'd been listening all this while for the wrong thing entirely; that music— for that mat…
Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it's not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. It's a way of getting out of house, connecting with other people, and looking at the world through different sets of eyes.
One of the basic and difficult lessons every artist must learn is that even the failed pieces are essential.
Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
In fact, if artmaking did not tell you (the maker) so enormously much about yourself, then making art that matters to you would be impossible. To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experience of shaping…
The most profound choice in life is to either accept things as they exist or to accept the responsibility for changing them.
Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.
...when things happened without any discernable context; when there were no recognizable patterns; when it was all incoherent; when isolated, disjointed events would take place only to be engulfed by an opaque black void, their relative meaning, their significance, annulled by the eons of entropic s…