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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 SummerbellModern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheWithout meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheGood advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation. Votes: 0
Rebecca L. WalkowitzTantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all. Votes: 0
Christopher Charles HarrisIf 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 PerdomoThe mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodNot 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 BoomIn the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob. Votes: 0
Hunter S. ThompsonIn a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other. Votes: 0
Charles Henry ParkhurstThe only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world. Votes: 0
Gregory David RobertsAn individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole. Votes: 0
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelEver more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. Votes: 0
Viktor E. FranklTo live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheTo leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheBhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.) Votes: 0
Elizabeth GilbertHe who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinI have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now. Votes: 0
Frederick Salomon PerlsMan'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 Stafford