Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Votes: 2
Hal BorlandChallenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Votes: 2
Viktor E. FranklThe strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Votes: 2
Tokugawa IeyasuThe meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Votes: 2
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyImmoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect". Votes: 0
Richard SummerbellWithout meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheModern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheThe meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all. Votes: 0
Christopher Charles HarrisTantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellGood advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation. Votes: 0
Rebecca L. WalkowitzIf you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict Votes: 0
Antonio Nuñez LopezEach work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. Votes: 0
Fernando Araujo PerdomoI've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodThe mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiIn a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other. Votes: 0
Charles Henry ParkhurstIn the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob. Votes: 0
Hunter S. ThompsonNot being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning, Votes: 0
Bret Easton EllisOnly to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning. Votes: 0
Corrie Ten BoomBhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.) Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertTo leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheTo live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheEver more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. Votes: 0
Viktor E. FranklAn individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole. Votes: 0
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world. Votes: 0
Gregory David RobertsI have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now. Votes: 0
Frederick Salomon PerlsHe who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinMan's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyWhat are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?
Neil deGrasse TysonIn pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
Augustus Welby Northmore PuginHuman life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."
Bruce SpringsteenAh, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.
Charles SpurgeonEyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.
David Steindl-RastJust as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
John of SalisburyLife may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
Ashleigh Brilliant..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.
Haruki MurakamiI know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.
Stanley CavellOft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
William ShenstoneThe true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
Abraham Joshua HeschelEveryone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
Hubert H. HumphreyAction can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.
Jean-Luc GodardNothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.
Leonhard EulerPleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.
Martin SeligmanI like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
Noah BaumbachSometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.
Dante Gabriel RossettiA story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
Flannery O'ConnorIt's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.
Gunter GrassCalling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.
James HillmanWe live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Jean BaudrillardThe past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.
Parker J. PalmerI never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.
Robert MotherwellHe didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning ...
Cassandra ClareThe strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
Ieyasu TokugawaWe are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.
Jacob NeedlemanFreedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.
Martin Buberthe truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
Muriel RukeyserI certainly do not begin with any meaning. It is as though my hands do all the thinking.
Quentin BellThe meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
Thomas MertonLife is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Viktor E. FranklIs there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
Aaron CoplandAnd if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, "I love you
Cat StevensThere is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.
Charles TaylorI don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.
Claire TrevorLife's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
E. B. WhiteThe fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
H. G. WellsShe made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Jack KevorkianGET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.
Kathy AckerPhilosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.
Nikolai BerdyaevThe primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
Northrop FryeThis is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
Paul RicoeurSpiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.
Stephen CoveyWhen a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
Viktor E. FranklThe task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.
Alberto VilloldoWe yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.
Allan LokosCommon sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.
Dana GouldGratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
David Steindl-RastI am convinced that what has the greatest meaning for us is what we uncover for ourselves.
Elizabeth O'ConnorWhat the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.
H. L. MenckenMy study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.
Karen ArmstrongHere then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.
Mark Z. DanielewskiThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew ArnoldThe hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of
Ned RoremPeople want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
Pablo PicassoMeaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
Alex Van HalenWe donât ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyI like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
Frances Moore LappéDo not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.
Judith Hanson LasaterTo know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWe need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
Pearl S. BuckThe source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.
Raymond RadiguetThe Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
Saint AugustineYou love her. (Shanus) I barely know her. (Wulf) Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus)
Sherrilyn KenyonIt's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.
David LevithanI think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.
Elizabeth LesserOnly eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.
Erwin W. LutzerWe discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.
Rick WarrenI try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.
Tiffanie DeBartoloAm I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?
Virginia WoolfLaws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
Alexander HamiltonTime isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne CarsonThe two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.
David ByrneWould I ever find forever love? Do I really want to, when forever was a word without meaning?
Ellen HopkinsYou shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
Jane AustenThe nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.
Mason CooleyToday the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.
Mohammed Reza PahlaviYour eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.
Paul EluardIn acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.
Peter L. BergerHow does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
Roland BarthesExercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
Ronald A. HeifetzNormally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.
St. LuciaThe photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.
Wright MorrisCelebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAn intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.
Georges BatailleThe word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Joyce MaynardYou are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
Mahatma GandhiWhile many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not.
Neil L. AndersenThe world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
NovalisFind the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.
Robin RobertsI cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
Camille PagliaThe problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.
Daniel J. BoorstinThe longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.
David ToopMystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.
Dennis CovingtonForever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.
Ellen HopkinsThe word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'
George OrwellBecause there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
John GreenBe able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
Marilyn vos SavantYou cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.
Nirmala SrivastavaThe meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.
RumiA sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
Samuel R. DelanyMeaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
Bill CrawfordYet is was very difficult to seperate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.
Elizabeth GaskellMeaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.
Franny BillingsleyCinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.
Jacques AudiardYou have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.
Margaret MillarI have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.
Nancy ThayerDeath is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
Paulo CoelhoIf I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.
Wolfgang PauliSearching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.
CherI think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.
Courtney Barnett...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
Don DeLilloThe world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
Edward AbbeyThe painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Joan MiroI'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.
Karen ArmstrongAlways remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.
Mas OyamaShall we go learn to kiss, to kiss? Never heart could ever miss Comfort, where true meaning is.
Nicholas BretonPeople who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
Rene MagritteEverything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
David BrinIn the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.
E. J. DionneOh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
Elie WieselMany a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
George D. PrenticeThe original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.
Jane GarmeyWhen you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.
JavanWherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
Kenneth BurkeThrough faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo BaeckOne of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.
Lewis CarrollAny time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
Neil deGrasse TysonLife in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
RajneeshThe "outside" constitutes the horizon of meaning and the vital energy of our practice and thought.
Roberto EspositoA sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
Salman RushdieHow can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
Sarah Addison AllenNothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
Alexis de TocquevilleI missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.
Alice SeboldThe Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning.
Benjamin L. CoreyYou get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
David Foster WallaceTantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAs finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
Freeman DysonThe things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
Haruki MurakamiIt's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.
James WellingLike art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.
Karen ArmstrongA satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
Mahatma GandhiI'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom.
Paris HiltonTestimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it
Paul RicoeurWhen we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Tom StoppardWhen a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
William StaffordTheir friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
Ann BrasharesLife is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
Charles Rennie MackintoshIf you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.
Christina PerriIn their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
David HewsonIs death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
Donald Barthelmethere is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is
John GreenThe word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.
Jonathan GoldmanFor the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
Josiah RoyceMy fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.
Lady GagaDreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.
Mark KingwellUntil you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.
Neale Donald WalschIf you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.
Nicolas CageThe point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.
Peggy OrensteinNice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.
Raymond ChandlerMemory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.
Rebecca McClanahanGreat communicators don't just hear the words. Great communicators hear the meaning behind the words
Simon SinekMan's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
Viktor E. FranklWhat answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?
W. H. AudenArt distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. Votes: 2 Miguel de Unamuno
If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check. Votes: 1 Mahalia Jackson
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. Votes: 4 Friedrich Schiller
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. Votes: 4 Maya Angelou
I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life. Votes: 1 Lalu Prasad Yadav
When there's light shining on a tree, that tree takes on different meaning. If there's no light at all it just looks dead. If you look at light as godly meaning, the world comes alive in a certain way. Votes: 2 Matisyahu
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. Votes: 4 Mae West
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. Votes: 1 Friedrich Schiller
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations. Votes: 1 Tim Blake Nelson
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me. Votes: 3 Branford Marsalis
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad. Votes: 3 Stephen Cohen
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. Votes: 1 Adrian Grenier
Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey. Votes: 1 Alexandra Stoddard
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. Votes: 3 Adrian Grenier
Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games. Votes: 1 Jane McGonigal
It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it? Votes: 1 Jonathan Franzen
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. Votes: 3 Adrian Grenier
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. Votes: 3 Laura Schlessinger
It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?' Votes: 1 Bruce Eric Kaplan
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. Votes: 5 Nikos Kazantzakis
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. Votes: 1 George F. Kennan
My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning. Votes: 2 Mark Z. Danielewski
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. Votes: 3 Rick Warren
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. Votes: 4 Robert Fulghum
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. Votes: 1 Gore Vidal
I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. Votes: 3 Angelina Jolie
There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music. Votes: 1 Kailash Kher
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. Votes: 1 Nikolai Berdyaev
Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life. Votes: 3 Laurence Overmire
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Votes: 3 Thomas Merton
We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that. Votes: 4 Johnathon Schaech
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings. Votes: 1 Christopher McQuarrie
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. Votes: 1 Jacques Barzun
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. Votes: 4 Adrian Grenier
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. Votes: 4 Elie Wiesel
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words. Votes: 2 Mason Cooley
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. Votes: 3 Gustav Stresemann
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. Votes: 1 Socrates
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art. Votes: 3 Eleonora Duse
You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it. Votes: 3 Caroline Kennedy
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Votes: 1 Marc Chagall
The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing. Votes: 3 Otsuichi
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake. Votes: 3 Diogenes
I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves. Votes: 3 Leon Uris
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education. Votes: 3 Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family. Votes: 3 Nia Long
Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything Votes: 4 Muhammad Ali
I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything. Votes: 1 Billy Graham
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Votes: 2 Erich Fromm
I don't know the true meaning of happiness. Votes: 3 Jonathan Davis
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history. Votes: 3 Emile M. Cioran
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. Votes: 1 John Ashcroft
Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning. Votes: 1 Joy Harjo
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Votes: 6 Joseph Campbell
I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans. Votes: 3 Robert Dessaix
We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together. Votes: 6 Martin Lawrence
No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. Votes: 1 Keith O'Brien
A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape. Votes: 1 Louis MacNeice
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not. Votes: 4 Gordon Getty
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. Votes: 1 Marcel Proust
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. Votes: 3 Anne Stevenson
The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's 'public pages,' but those represent a tiny fraction of the 'pages' on Faceboo, and are not informed by the crucial signals of identity and relationship which give those pages meaning. Votes: 2 John Battelle
My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters. Votes: 3 Charlene Tilton
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Votes: 3 Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Votes: 1 C. S. Lewis
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. Votes: 7 Philip K. Dick
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation. Votes: 3 D. H. Lawrence
Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush. Votes: 3 Robert Moss
The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.' Votes: 1 Brendan Myers
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. Votes: 4 Crispin Glover
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Votes: 2 Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance. Votes: 1 John Barton
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Votes: 4 Erich Fromm
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers. Votes: 1 Billy Collins
Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect. Votes: 3 Michael Josephson
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Votes: 1 Epictetus
I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music. Votes: 2 David Archuleta
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Votes: 3 Erich Fromm
I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning. Votes: 1 Nate Berkus
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. Votes: 1 Anne Stevenson
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. Votes: 7 Mitch Albom
Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning. Votes: 1 Anthony Marra
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. Votes: 1 Karl Ove Knausgaard
My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe! Votes: 1 Mallory Jansen
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. Votes: 3 Karl Ove Knausgaard
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. Votes: 1 Matthew Arnold
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience. Votes: 1 Eric Kandel
Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey. Votes: 1 Alexandra Stoddard
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. Votes: 3 Alfred Marshall
I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television. Votes: 1 Adam Beach
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. Votes: 2 Ben Carson
I don't know the true meaning of happiness. Votes: 3 Jonathan Davis
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Votes: 4 Nelson Henderson
People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you. Votes: 4 Paulo Coelho
F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. Votes: 4 Zig Ziglar
Work is a search for daily meaning as well as for daily bread. Votes: 0 Studs Terkel
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. Votes: 4 Dalai Lama
What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be. Votes: 7 James Frey
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. Votes: 4 Andy Rooney
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. Votes: 2 Blaise Pascal