inner significance Quotes

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Know that you yourself are a miracle.

Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life; one has to create it. Only if you create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there like a rock, it has to be created like a song. It is not a thing, it is significance that you bring through your consciousness.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

It's possible of course, especially when you're young, to read a book and take it to your heart. And you don't need to speak to anybody about it - it's so important to you: You have found it.

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.

It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it

Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Even though the search for meaning is debunked today, the cries of the human heart can be smothered for only so long. In these yearnings, the search for significance and fulfillment continues.

The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit...What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look.