A Quote by T. S. Eliot
We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.
I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.
The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text or the experience of a reader. Meaning is an inescapable notion because it is not something simple or simply determined. It is simultaneously an experience of a subject and a property of a text. It is both what we understand and what in the text we try to understand.
We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.
It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.
When we grew up, we had three channels on television and only one day of cartoons and if you missed it, you missed 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.
I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
I thought my father had forgotten about me. But I realised that he missed me as much as I missed him.
I really didn't feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I'm not going to do that this time.
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