Pastoral Resources

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined.

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.