Quotation Explorer - 'Meaning'

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'. - Mary Daly

When I asked him the meaning of life, Dr. Webb got very quit and then told me that life has no one meaning, it only has whatever meaning each of us puts on our own life. - John Corey Whaley

Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The tears of God are the meaning of history. - Nicholas Wolterstorff

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art. - Leon Trotsky

As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning. - Viktor E. Frankl

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm

Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in its original meaning of "love") while the military offers death. The two are intrinsically connected. - Talal Asad

There is no meaning to fate If you don't have faith - Swetha Dhanagari

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure. - Walter Moers

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert Camus

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice - Viktor E. Frankl

I don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have greater meaning than a work of art that he made? - Devin J. Monroe

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything. - Oscar Wilde

God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Words won’t have meaning until you put your emotions into them. - Pratik Akkawar

I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about. - Oliver

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. - Harriet Lerner

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives. - Confucius

The table next to the sink is for flashcards. I saw a Monty Python skit called, "every sperm is sacred," and it gave me the idea that, "every piss is sacred." Meaning, WHY NOT LOOK AT FLASHCARDS WHILE VOIDING? - Peter Rogers

Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them. - Deyth Banger

There isn't meaning if we give everything in replace for nothing! - Deyth Banger

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi. - Harshit Walia

We cannot live without meaning, that would preclude any sense of identity, any hope, any future. - Carlina Rinaldi

Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you. - Ankur Basu Roy

Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life; it is what gives meaning to life. - Mollie Marti

There is no science without spirituality; spirituality has no meaning without science. - Debasish Mridha

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty. - Oscar Wilde

Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment. - Jim George

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death. - Donna Lynn Hope

Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence. - Gary Hopkins

The meaning of man's existence is not to dominate over others, but to better humanity. - Eraldo Banovac

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over. - bell hooks

See The Meaning Not The Problem - Sascha Bosio

Ah, divorce. The Latin word meaning to rip a man's genitals out through his wallet. - Robin Williams

Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning? - Hélène Cixous

We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness. - Debasish Mridha

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. - Leo Tolstoy

Never ever try to look for the meaning of life. If you do, everything will become tasteless. Just stay where you are and be happy.Trust me, It's better to be in the illusion rather than in reality. So why spoil all the fun - Anas Khan

In entirety, valentine is a FUCKING DAY, rather than the sanctity of its literal meaning. - Michael Bassey Johnson

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. - June Jordan

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results. - H.W. Brands

First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words;Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher;Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions. - Gautama Buddha

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness. - Nikolai A. Berdyaev

The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard. - George Santayana

To get inspiration, go to the nature; for silence, go to the nature; to question the meaning of life, go to the nature; to feel the existence, go to the nature; to protect your mind, to reach the truth, to think about the universe go to the nature! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning. - Leo Braeck

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words. - Unarine Ramaru

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning. - Niels Bohr

Life without dreaming is like living without meaning. - Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal, sivaprakash sidhu, sivaprakash, sivaprakash, sidh

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. - Mary Pipher

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. - W. Somerset Maugham

The one who has found inner silence, stops pondering over the meaning of life and starts living it. That's the journey from "going with the flow" to "being the flow. - Rashmit Kalra

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Make her smile, make her laugh and make her happy; because this is the only Truth, Meaning & Beauty act any human can ever achieve. - Sameh Elsayed

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. - Edith Wharton

To find the meaning of life, enjoy the journey, the beauty of the nature, the glint of a dew drop, the warmth of the morning sun, the songs of the wind, and smiles of flowers. These are all there to make your journey worthwhile and make your life meaningful. - Debasish Mridha

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless. - Tim Winton

You must take these poems as mirrors; for you know that the mirror has no form of itself, but rather reflects the face of anyone who looks in it. Just so a poem has no one particular meaning of itself , but presents to each reader his state of the moment and the completeness of his case - Ayn al-Qazat Hamadani Persian Mystic

What haunts me most about her eyes is the pain I put in them... In the corner of my dark soul Her passion is dark like a kohl She is giving new meaning to these feelings She is complete she is whole. - Dinesh Kumar Biran

Life is a thick dictionary, where you can find the meaning of anything. - gwenth

while life takes a pause ,you are path of closer to meaning of love - litymunshi

Most information doesn’t constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that’s a very different concept from information. - Ian Stewart

I am familiar with the phrase, ‘needle in a haystack’ and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to. - David Sadler

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. - Albert Camus

Death is not our destiny. Longing for true love is our true destiny. That is where we will find the ultimate meaning of life. - Debasish Mridha

Success is a way of life that has meaning and purpose. - Debasish Mridha

Everything that happens in our lives has meaning even though we may not understand it or even pay attention to it. - Debasish Mridha

The breath I take, the thoughts I think, the emotions I develop, the blood I circulate, the neurons that are wired, everything is completely controlled and has a deep meaning behind it. My soul is enlightened. - Magith Noohukhan

If you are to become what you are meant to be, you have to first find your real meaning! - Leslie Austin

That life has no clear purpose or meaning is the best possible news for artists. - Marty Rubin

Babynamescube.com is a world famous baby naming and pareting website. Find beautiful and trendy names with meaning and origin. Also get parenting advice. - Linda

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. - Louis D. Brandeis

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. - Eric Hoffer

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! - Samuel Adams

We look to the accumulation of sensory pleasures to give our lives meaning. We have the ability now to consume anything we want and this capacity far exceeds our actual needs. With so much at our fingertips, a kind of gluttony pervades our mind-sets. - Mark Epstein

You find the meaning in life by giving yourself away not by satisfying yourself. The most gratifying thing, at 73 years old, is to be able to think that your life was used to help others.

Maybe comfort exists in believing there is order in the world, even when someone is making the most disorderly decision we know: running toward death instead of away from it.In their absence, we're left trying to pin meaning to air. - Kate Fagan

I know there's a word called "miracle". But I don't know if there's a meaning inside the word, "miracle - Dante Soo

Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - "What is the meaning of the void?" The answer was perfect silence, so I knew. - Jack Kerouac

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death. - Dean Koontz

Looking at the Blessed Mother, Kevin felt the pull of a special allegiance with her. To Serve God, to honor Mary who speaks to my soul, sending me messages I cannot know the meaning of? Is this what my life is about? - Peter J Tanous

We add value to our lives by giving without expectations; we add meaning to our lives by loving unconditionally. - Debasish Mridha

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it. - Walter Kirn

It’s about the possibility, or otherwise, of meaning in the world. And the possibility, or otherwise, of writing. And the possibility, or otherwise, of the resolution of everything into some coherent, cogent vision. - Tom McCarthy

Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. - Robin Williams

It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. - Lois McMaster Bujold

They are the ones who bring meaning to our lives, who happen to inspire, who spark a fire that we carry with us for the rest of our days, who are but pillars of hope and sometimes sacrifice, life-changers, life-savers, catalysts. - Chirag Tulsiani

We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand. - Anne Lamott

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work. - André Breton

We live in a world where terrorism has a more familiar meaning than peace. - Keely Barton

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens. - Robert M. Price

We had the experience but missed the meaning. - T.S. Eliot

When you love you give meaning to this world. - Sorin Cerin

We didn’t realize that although the meaning changed, our dirty places remained the same. - Maggie Young

I truly understood the meaning of hope. It is something much bigger than anything physical we may desire. It’s about raising our eyes from a point on the horizon to the heavens and into eternity. And it’s about relying on God’s grace to do it, no matter what the cost. - Laura Sobiech

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy. - Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III

There is something mysterious yet definitely accessible to us all under the agitated waves of difficulty that allows us to feel and flow along a more comprehensive intuitive and spiritual understanding of true meaning. And to find solace, accepting serenity and even beauty within it. - Darrell Calkins

A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us. - Jason Haxton

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - C.G. Jung

True happiness can only be found when you stop worrying about yourself and try to look out for those around you.Helping people can give your life meaning and joy. Don't expect anything in return spread happiness and get peace, there is nothing more valuable than peace.. - AribaZafar

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. - William Shakespeare

Asking, "If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?" is like asking, "If there is no master, whose slave will I be?" If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom who should detest. - Dan Barker

Life with out challenge have no meaning! - Zybejta Metani'Marashi

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence. - National Academy of Sciences

If and when our civilization comes to ruin, the destructive agent will be Science; man's knowledge of science, applied to warfare, meaning slaughter not only of human bodies, but of human institutions, of all we have created through the centuries. - Cicely Hamilton

What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring this question is a powerful exercise in meaning; what is the meaning of human existence? - David W. Earle

Literature is language charged with meaning - Ezra Pound

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.

Money serves those who can match it the right way. So it is for us to decide and understand the meaning of Live Rich or Die Rich - Gian Kumar

Life will only have a meaning once you've achieved to find your true passion and love within the limitless boundaries of destiny - Callum Illman

And our desire to knowEach other and desertEach other for newCenters of meaning so thatThe boundaries may reignAnd in doing so be undone. - Rob Schlegel

A philosopher is a lover and searcher of truth, beauty, meaning, and wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

As humans we need each other to give meaning to the word happy! - Unarine Ramaru

There is always a double meaning in life... - Nadeem v Abdu

Without love, life has no meaning. - Debasish Mridha

Love has value even though we can’t measure it. Silence has meaning even though we can’t understand it. - Debasish Mridha

Life loses its meaning when you forget your purpose. - Debasish Mridha

I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive. - Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Babynology.com explores baby names of all origins; you can get plenty of baby names along with meaning and origin. You can even search the meanings of your baby names. - Baby nology

A place where the mind can attain stillness meaning doing darshan (seeing with the intent of worship) of a great person who has stillness of the mind, can still the mind of other person, however the chit is not steady there. - Dada Bhagwan

Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers. - Jacques Lacan

Be a success but never forget to be kind. Success has no meaning if your heart is empty of kindness. - Debasish Mridha

This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans. ...But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we'll be looking at putting different sound chips in the dolls heading there [Britain]. - Todd McFarlane

To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person. - Pope Benedict XVI

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature. - Enza Vita

We are all accountable for our actions; their affect and influence on our lives and the lives of others. Understanding the true meaning of accountability makes us strong and enables us to learn - Sameh Elsayed

The Chilcot report is a revelation of injustice under the cloak of Aid. The Chilcot report is a sorry report on the current state of humanity. So the ultimate question here is – what are we going to achieve out of the sorry reports when sorry has no meaning in action? - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. - Norm Papernick

A picture is a personal diary where only the artist knows the meaning. - Steeven Shaw

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. - David Viscott

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled. - Peggy Noonan

Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have a life to live. … The crisis is the very mystery of our existence and the yearning for there to be some kind of meaning to it. - Andrew Root

The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself. - Debasish Mridha

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. - Pablo Picasso

What is the meaning of a cactus flower? It exists, that's all. - Marty Rubin

If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until you're sixty-five. - Morrie Schwartz

When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning. - Marty Rubin

Such dreams provide this temporary illusion of a life that has meaning. - Anna Jae

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one. - Kim Wright

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it. - William James

Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never. - Victor Hugo

Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it. - Jane Hirshfield

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects. - Dejan Stojanovic

The meaning of life is to die living it. - Dominic Riccitello

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. - Malcolm Gladwell

Silence is a time of reflection to bring peace and meaning to your life, and to those around you. This deafening quiescence will mean different things to different people but if they listen carefully, they will understand... - Virginia Alison

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life. - Marty Rubin

He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning. - Ian McEwan

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. - Hermann Hesse

People living godly will dwell on high. Meaning wealth, honour, prosperity, fame, elevation, joy etc. - Sunday Adelaja

Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

To find the deep meaning of life, you must get lost in the blue sky and go beyond your comfort zone. - Debasish Mridha

Experience gives meaning to knowledge. - Paul Bamikole

We are as ignorant of the meaning of our least gesture as we are of life itself. - Marty Rubin

When indeed does the temporal suffering oppress a man most terribly? Is it not when it seems to him that it has no significance, that it neither secures nor gains anything for him? Is it not when the suffering, as the impatient man expresses it, is without meaning or purpose? - Søren Kierkegaard

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power. - Germany Kent

To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffer. - D.M.X.

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion. - A.E. Samaan

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - Carl Jung

The truth is in Jesus and it leads to the fullness of truth about God, man, creation, history, sin, righteousness, grace, faith, salvation, life, death, purpose, meaning, relationships, heaven, hell, judgement, eternity, and everything else of ultimate consequence. - John F. MacArthur Jr.

Skateboarding has taught me two things - that symbolise a meaning of life. How to keep a balance and how to pick yourself up when you've fallen. - Nikki Rowe

I Can’t Live without You. expresses the full meaning of true love. It is a beautiful and powerful emotion, words can never express, nor can the mind comprehend its connection within two souls. - Ellen J. Barrier

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience. - Oliver

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. - Alfred North Whitehead

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life. - Oprah Winfrey

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. - Pablo Picasso

Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by contrast, unique skills requiring mastery and expertise, like the skills of a brain surgeon, are safe from the threat of commoditization. - Tom Hayes

Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise. - Beverly S. Harless

Success is a creative journey with meaning and purpose. - Debasish Mridha

If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live. - Chris Matakas

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. - Emil Cioran

Your life has purpose and meaning. Don't devalue yourself giving someone else meaning. - Michelle Cook-Hall

The meaning of life is that it ends - Franz Kafka

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning. - Alan W. Watts

I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on and loved us back, that love held even more meaning to me. - Hubert Martin

We must accept the idea that having a male child has a unique social and psychological meaning for a woman. Even women who led the movement to break out the passivity and sublimation of the female role were deeply influenced by the belief in superior masculine power. - Klein Carole

[Your] search for meaning in the world... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place. - The New Message from God

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm

Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Matt Groening

Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story. - Jacqui Stedmon

he who speaks parables knows and understands the real meaning of parables better - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A woman could be totally powerless, and still give meaning to her life by dreaming about flight. - Fatema Mernissi

The meaning of pain is different for different people ... It depends on their age, their experience and their knowledge. But the intensity of it is the same, young or old ... and unfortunately it is inevitable ... just like failure, that results in more pain ...It's a vicious cycle. - Shreyas Tripathy

There is no "I", there's only "we". Meaning all you can touch, and all that you see is a part of you, and a part of me. - Jennifer Sodini

Rhythm must have meaning. - Ezra Pound

Haven’t you seen and heard that every word I seed for you is a feeling, and every thought I bloom bears a meaning? Rivers of words, blending together for the same course, the action of my being: my universe, your beauty. - Soar

When you do or think or feel something, do it with passion. Let it come from the heart. Put your heart and soul in it. And when you do, you will feel a river flowing sweetly through you and especially through your entire life. Life has much more meaning that way.  - Angie karan

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance - Leo Buscaglia

[...] the sense that everyone was incommunicado with everyone else and living on an entirely wrong plane, so that the meaning, the message, the love, or whatever it was that each life contained, never could find its expression. - Patricia Highsmith

If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there’s a sentence written especially for us. - Pietro Citati

If hate motivates your life, you'll never know the meaning of true love - Gaiven Clairmont

Culture primarily witnesses the absence of meaning, not it's presence. - Thomas McFarland

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds. - Jacques Derrida

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either. - Orhan Pamuk

The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming Force or Weakness of the Evidence. - Anthony Collins

However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise. - Michael Foley

In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose. - G.K. Chesterton

To understand the *True Meaning Of Life*, just ~Study~ the *EveryDay WoMen*!! - Aisare NoMon

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. - Carl Sagan

Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all. - Shannon L. Alder

When you stop living for luxuries you understand the real meaning of life. - Edhi Sahab, 1928-2016

I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading? - Dean Bokhari

Putting it into words will destroy any meaning. - Haruki Murakami

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve. - Theodora Goss

...even though we do not have the wisdom to enumerate the reasons for the behaviour of another person, we can grant that every individual does have his private world of meaning, conceived out of the integrity and dignity of his personality. - Virginia M. Axline

Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other". ~ [2012] - R. Alan Woods

The pursuit of material-external things as if they can provide deep and lasting happiness is contributing to a dwindling of real meaning and is a factor contributing to an increase in mental health problems. It just isn't possible to fill the hole inside us by piling up the things outside us." pg9 - Dr Stephen McKenzie and Dr Craig Hassed

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

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? - Charles M. Schulz

Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning. - José Saramago

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. - Pete Hamill

Before "THOUGHT" there is only YOU and your MIND. Thought, is what assigns meaning to things. Also implying that you are not your THOUGHTS; and with your mind, you have the POWER to assign new meanings to things. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Revolution doesn't always mean violent, it has a reverse meaning on it; noituLOVEr - Cj Lacuesta

Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life. - Bryant McGill

Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it. - Sarah Dessen

Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times. - Roy T. Bennett

You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. - Matt Groening

What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning. - Clifford Cohen

Having a passion for Christ and that's really what gives life a true meaning. - Chris Chacko

Loving is more important than living; without love, life has no meaning. - Debasish Mridha

If you understand the desire of a blooming flower, you will be able to understand the meaning of life. - Debasish Mridha

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. - William Kittredge

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. - Rick Riordan

Find your ‘why’. Give your life meaning. - Pooja Ruprell

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - Aristotle

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. - Alan Moore

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. - Guy Debord

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. - Nikolai A. Berdyaev

If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you," would be understood: It would be practiced. - Ellen J. Barrier

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say having double meaning.

Many find in sex and economics the meaning of life and the reason of it all. The consequence of this is that the goal of life for many has become a relief of tension. - Sachindra Kumar Majumdar

It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used. - Jess Walter

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is a word hard to express, a feeling easy to express and a word hard to take, only the people who try it know the meaning and how to tell it wisely. - Auliq Ice

If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy. - Unarine Ramaru

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. - Albert Camus

Girls who like each other have a different energy. More intense. Furtive. They're part of a secret world. They speak in code, like spies. Everything has a hidden meaning. - Leah Reader

Children I implore youget out of the burning house nowthree carts wait outsideto save you from a homeless liferelax in the village squarebefore the sky everything's emptyno direction is better or worseeast is just as good as westthose who know the meaning of thisare free to go where they want - Han-shan

What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food. - François Jacob

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. - Vincent Van Gogh

Happiness is, when it comes to the understanding of its meaning, to sometimes be unhappy. - Hasse Jerner

Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you - Nicole Krauss

The physicist had no time to waste on a symbol; his concern was with what the symbol denoted. To the typesetter the symbol and its denotation were bound in an organic unity. There was a meaning to the symbol itself which only the typesetter could appreciate. - K. Sridhar

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form. - T.S. Eliot

…breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satan…and even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us. - Glenn Duncan

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work. - Amit Kalantri

That life has no clear meaning is the best possible news for an artist. - Marty Rubin

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' - Aaron Copland

Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning. - Mr. Nobody

The eyes of a nation (living godly) like this shall see the King of kings and the Lord of lords in all his beauty. Meaning salvation and redemption shall be readily available in abundance for the people of that land. - Sunday Adelaja

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. - Viktor E. Frankl

When people don't understand the meaning of freedom in their lives, they will continue to live as though they're still oppressed. - Gugu Mona

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. - Freya Stark

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come. - Pericles

Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. - Herbert W. Boyer

If the universe doesn't care about us and if we're an accident in a remote corner of the universe, in some sense it makes us more precious. The meaning in our lives is provided by us; we provide our own meaning. - Lawrence M. Krauss

The most important lesson that we're supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality) - Brian "Head" Welch

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert Camus

The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction. - Gerald Murnane

Life is meaningless. It is our actions that add meaning to it. - Avinash Rao

What is the meaning of Religion? The revelation of the hidden and unknown power of this human body, and to know that infinite power of this human body is the religion. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

God only gives men power to make wealth, meaning God does not give wealth, he gives the power to work for it. (Deut. 8:18) - Sunday Adelaja

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? - Woody Allen

Life by default is meaningless, but the beauty of life is that we give it meaning. - Holly Wujcik

Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school. - Andy Paula

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. - Walter Gropius

Only pain can define the meaning of tears. - Munia Khan

Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger - Eiichiro Oda

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland

Without religion or God, what is the meaning of life?" Is like asking, 'Without shoes, what is the meaning of feet'. - Andrea L'Artiste

I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished. - Lionel Suggs

My greatest fear. is to have lived in such a way to miss the mark, not to be able to accomplish my assignment on earth; making meaning and impacting lives. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

What's the meaning of ignore? You hear somebody, but you never asnwer to him! - Deyth Banger

Development in general doesn’t make you better employee or better manager. Development makes you a better human who is able to invest the best in you to add beauty and meaning to your life and the rest of the world. - Sameh Elsayed

A philosopher is a deep thinker and a meticulous observer of nature and events that reveal the beauty, truth, and meaning of existence. - Debasish Mridha

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want. - Shannon L. Alder

What haunts me most about her eyes is the pain I put in them...In the corner of my dark soul, her passion is dark like a kohl.She is giving new meaning to these feelings...She is complete, she is whole. - Dinesh Kumar Biran

The meaning of life is to adventurously discover our gift. The purpose of life is joyfully share our gift with the world. - Robert John Cook

A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere. - Keri Hulme

How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY. - Christina Engela

The greatest gift of life is love, but not many people seem to feel it or even understand the meaning of it. - Mouloud Benzadi

Australian Aborigines 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 their prey in the bush. - Robert Moss

Quotes are just words, meaning is created by mind. - Ragesh Nair

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star. - Logan Pearsall Smith

In modern society the term "no" have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for "Negotiations Open". - Jury Nel

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning... - C.S. Lewis

Music That Brings, The Meaning Of our Life.Music That Shows, The Light From Our Soul.When This Music Touch Our Hear, We call it TRANCE.When This Music Control Our Emotion We call it "THE SENSATION OF TRANCE - Saumya Mohanty

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. - Gilles Deleuze

Everyday has its own meaning. Find the reason of your survival of the day and accomplish it. - M. Ganesh Sai

Yesterday I fell completely off the face of the earthContemplating life, light and love in the darkness of the voidStrangely it was in the dark that I found meaning for the light - Neil Leckman

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972] - Archibald MacLeish

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. - Václav Havel

What is the meaning to this life? is a wrong question? A blank paper doesn’t contain any meaning till we don’t write anything meaningful on it. Similarly this universe doesn’t contain any meaning without this beautiful life. So life gives meaning to this universe and we should respect it. - Brajesh Kumar

Nobel intentions have no real meaning to them if you don't do it solely for you. Do it to satisfy your soul, not theirs. Don't do it in hope that it earns you a reward at the end, instead let the reward be the beauty created as a result of your actions. - Kendal Rob

Merkabah is translated as either meaning the throne of god or chariot. Both definitions imply a means of spiritual ascension, not a physical one. They only have it partly right. - L.Z.Marie

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. - Stephen Hawking

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true. - Orson Scott Card

Your Dream is not a person when you feel broken and failure enough to say that your dream is dead .Revive it ! don't give up . it's the only thing that makes you not a robot , it's the only thing that makes your life got a meaning . - Amir Shalaby

We carry on not by letting go of the worries that burden us; but by staying true to our hearts & the meaning that surrounds us. - Robert Vanleeuwen

The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition. - Vicki Robin

When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs. - Stephen Richards

Money without meaning is meaningless - Josh Bezoni

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. - Epictetus

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. - C.G. Jung

Love is just a word until you meet someone who gives it meaning. - Kate McGahan

After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] "How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived. - Ronald C. White Jr.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. - Truman Capote

And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or need to honor with our own. - June Jordan

You used words, discarding them meaninglessly, without thinking, whereas I thought they held meaning. I found what you will never see: that my love resides on the other side of words. - Broken Places - Rachel Thompson

Suddenly she bent down and kissed his fingers and went quickly away. But he sat for a long time in the gathering clouds trembling with happiness and trying to penetrate into the meaning of these things. - Thorton Wilder

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries. - Clifford Stoll

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We have little importance. Once we've assimilated that, life can have a meaning. - Laure Lacornette

You can't see the light without darkness, take a look at the dark side of another point of view, you will find the meaning of darkness are essentially - Eldy Reynanda

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali

There are many truths by which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. - John Stuart Mill

A woman’s belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty. - Toni Sorenson

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains. - Ralph Ellison

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

Were all trying to find meaning to make sense of our realities; in search of happiness within, Without realising our happiness within; is the only reality that gives life a meaning. - Nikki Rowe

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning. - Jim Corbett

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? - Irvin D. Yalom

Her grandfather's books [...] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning; every syllable was inexpressively precious - Irène Némirovsky

It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas. - Milan Kundera

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. - Albert Einstein

Life has no happy endings, actually, no endings at all, just an ongoing series of beginnings. A story—whether it’s happy or sad, whether it makes sense or not, what its meaning is—depends entirely on where you start it and where you end it. - Judith Ryan Hendricks

But this was different, as if some creature had risen from a corner of my cell and taken over every part of me. It swallowed meaning. I hadn't thought suffering would be like this, so ordinary, so dull, and so endless. - Robyn Cadwallader

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning. - Dennis Hopper

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language — it’s from the Latin word cor, meaning heart — and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart. - Brené Brown

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman

The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all. - Christopher Charles Harris

Narration, after all, isn’t just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they yield meaning. Television replaced this concerted quest for meaning with a frantic pursuit of wonder. - Steve Almond

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. - Huey P. Newton

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. - Unknown

Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God. - Jim George

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." - Paul Tillich

Am confused, after been hurt and betrayed i still love her. Still confused, does it mean the feeling after love is hurt and pain then it comes back to love. Meaning love is stronger than all the other feelings. confused. - Matthew Kweku Arkutu

Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book. - Nikki Rowe

Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed. - Auliq Ice

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life. - Philip Appleman

The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning. - Marty Rubin

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble. - Bill Watterson

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. - Abraham Joshua Heschel

I've taken care of it," I saidMy father looked at me, shocked.Then I realized "taken care of" had a very specific meaning in his line of work."No, no, I mean he's gone. - Gordon Korman

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of live. - Vince Lombardi

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton - W.H. Auden

We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness. - David Foster Wallace

I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love. - Clive Barker

The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics. - Isidor Isaac Rabi

The meaning of life is to enjoy it. - Marty Rubin

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. - Desmond Tutu

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that. - Jack Kevorkian

Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it. - Yi

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. - Thomas Pynchon

For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind. - Nynke Visser

It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story. - Richard Gist

Love makes things so easy. At the same time, it makes things very difficult. The meaning of love always remains to be the same. It just gets changed according to the perception of people in different gestures. - Rakesh Kumar Akuthota

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace. - Max Lucado

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady. - Shah Asad Rizvi

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. - A.E. Housman

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. - Hannah Arendt

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. - Deepak Chopra

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. - Magritte

Arts degrees are awesome. And they help you find meaning where there is none. And let me assure you, there is none. Don’t go looking for it. Searching for meaning is like searching for a rhyme scheme in a cookbook: you won’t find it and you’ll bugger up your soufflé. - Tim Minchin

To me, the meaning of a human life is to be happy. It's to achieve happiness right now, it's to make sure you're happy in the future. And if some people on YouTube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is: do whatever you have to do to be happy. - Dan Howell

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. - Oprah Winfrey

Remember: things only have the meaning and importance you give them. - Marty Rubin

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one. - Emil Cioran

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. - Henry Rollins

A title from the1966 movie"The Russians Are Coming,The Russians Are Coming," gives a new meaning toa phrase: "wait a minute, we've seen this movie before - Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. - Aaron Copland

If there is better, then there is a best. If there is half, then there is a complete. Far more than being a better half, you can be a best complete; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added. - Olaotan Fawehinmi

She gave life a meaning. She was art, dressed like a painters pallet, bright and unaware of how goddam beautiful she could be turned into; with the right touch, her smile was the brush and her story was the canvas. - Nikki Rowe

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. - Bill Watterson

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading - William Stafford

When everything seems hopeless, turn your mind toward the three people who mean most to you in this world. Think about what you must mean to them, and from those thoughts of those three people will stem all the hope and meaning you’ll need to fight through. - Shenita Etwaroo

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not "to have and to hold" but "to give and serve." There can be no other meaning.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

What you give meaning to is what causes your emotion. Before you react know why you are giving something so much energy or fear. When you begin to understand why you give things meaning you can begin to change how you react and why you do what you do. - Shannon L. Alder

Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning. - Ken Poirot

People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything. - Gary Hopkins

When I was a little kid I had a very different meaning of life; simple like a cup of tea with sugar and a piece of cake, today the whole world doesn’t give me that life. - M.F. Moonzajer

If I were given a choice, I would stand by Eve and eat that forbidden apple once again. Why? I know there is beauty and meaning and significance in the complexity of our lives on earth. Otherwise, we are just animals. I prefer us to be human. - J.D. Radke

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none. - H. L. Mencken

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds. - Robert Anderson

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

In Jesus the full meaning of peace is revealed: he gave peace, made peace and is our peace (Jn. 14:27; Eph. 2:14f.). - Gordon J. Wenham

Life finds its meaning and answers from what life does to serve others. - Debasish Mridha

Most adults have a vocabulary of around 60,000 words, meaning that children must learn 10 to 20 words a day between the ages of eight months and 18 years. And yet the most frequent 100 words account for 60% of all conversations. The most common 4000 words account for 98% of conversation. - David Miller

At our core there is silence and stillness…that is truly who we are when you peel away the titles, the ego, the thoughts, the beliefs, the intellect….once you get REALLY naked –you will see that who you are has nothing to do with all that we have given meaning to. - davidji

Apology is not about saying I'm sorry, but it is about the meaning you put behind the apology and admitting that you are the wrong part. - Unarine Ramaru

Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself. - Jay Woodman

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse. - Banksy

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. - Carl Jung

God will let you into the battlefield so you can understand the meaning of victory. - Gugu Mona

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe. - John Archibald Wheeler

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour. - Paul Klee

I need to open this door of self in order to throw out everything that is useless and to save the meaning ofthe things I have to keep. - Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression

How does a poor country defeat rich ones? Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it. Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows? But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel. Currency! Indeed. - Neal Stephenson

When you are in love, you have to be ready to suffer and find out the meaning of love. - Debasish Mridha

All the higher values in life get redefined on a regular basis for good; there is no static meaning as such. - Harshit Walia

Without Scripture, our words would be without meaning! - Mary Kate

Life loses its meaning when we are not living in peace. - Debasish Mridha

A person with the nice feelings gives to oneself the right purpose and meaning of life, but not without own suffering. - Anuj Somany

Great Literature is simply language charged to the utmost with meaning - Ezra Pound

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. - Alexander Hamilton

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane - Hope Edelman

Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life. - Abhijit Naskar

The significance of a revolution will be known after the days have gone past us. When the children of the coming years wake up and like the albatross glide across the azure sky.The freedom to live a life of meaning and joy. - Avijeet Das

Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meaning, assigns significance and conveys in his loving touch the fine art and gentle shaping of a life. This man shall be called, Father. - Stella Payton

Live the meaning of life - Andre White

I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. - Viktor Frankl

Pain halts you sometimes to take a moment and potentiate yourself again, pain breaks you sometimes to shed what is faulty in yourself!Pain has a meaning for those who search the answers - raja shakeel mushtaque

Human life has little meaning until we rediscover our wings and start flying. - Dr. Asoka Jinadasa

Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose; make a positive difference in someone's life. - Roy T. Bennett

The past is always with us. It echoes through every living moment, giving it depth and meaning beyond itself. Sometimes the past is so powerful, those echoes threaten to overwhelm the present. - Trish Feehan

Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold on to your imagination. - Mona Naqi

For me, meaning of design is to give soul to objects by Art. Art sometimes need to be in every part of daily life, not only in the galleries and museums - Baris Gencel

In this era where you can be anything you want to be, it is very alluring to miss the most important mark in life - fulfillment and meaning; Remember that, what you can do may not be necessarily what you are called to do - Bernard Kelvin Clive

One who hates to be driven through suffering has no right to expect the pleasure, for pleasure may give joy but the pain gives meaning; Meaningless Joy is like anchor-less Ship sailing in a shoreless sea - Ajay Chandan

Never give a conscious meaning to your unconscious acts! - Ramana Pemmaraju

Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death - T.S. Eliot

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable - Friedrich Nietzsche

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty. - Marieta Maglas

CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English 'calorie' or Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex."

The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation. - Sandra L. Schneider

The meaning of life is that it stops. - Franz Kafka

And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving of mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom. - Colin Wilson

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups. - Henry A. Wallace

difference, distance, absence and seperation lie 'at the heart' of meaning, being and reality - Maggie MacLure

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live. - John Hepworth

If you put a little bit of my love in your heart, every tenderness will have a meaning. - ZAKIYA AND MAJID

Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy. - Elizabeth Kolbert

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter. - Patrick Cockburn

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. - Georgia O'Keeffe

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact. - Kurt Gödel

Do you mind telling me what you pray?""I pray for the wisdom to find meaning in the . . . her death."And have you?""No, Mrs. Aislabie, I find no meaning. But perhaps that's because I'm too small to see a plan so large I rarely get anything but a brief glimpse of it. - Katharine McMahon, The Alchemist's Daughter

A sage person says his thoughts with own heart feeling for he knows that this only gives it a real meaning and the connection with the people; while the foolish minds assume that it can be achieved through only words rhyming. - Anuj Somany

Till the time, you are enjoying the outside process, everything seems alright, but when the query arises, about why life, you search for the deeper meaning with life. - Roshan Sharma

God, unity, meaning, transcendence all belong to the imagination. - Marty Rubin

An amber sunset, a flowing river, a snow capped mountain, a beautiful heart, a calm mind, deep eyes, the moon, the earth and the sky - they are all silent. It's the words that give them meaning, decipher their essence and share their message. - Rashmit Kalra

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself. - Albert Camus

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. - Sir Winston Churchill

The pools had been written onto the fields by the rain. The pools were a magic worked by the rain, just as the tumbling of the black birds against the grey was a spell that the sky was working and the motion of grey-brown grasses was a spell that the wind made. Everything had meaning. - Susanna Clarke

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of life. - Paulo Coelho

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none. - Marty Rubin

God made you for a reason and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives. - Rick Warren

He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already. - Frederich Nietzsche

It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events are devoid of meaning until someone assigns it to them. - Dean C. Barnlund

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. - Vladimir Nabokov

The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result. - Roshan Sharma

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning - Theodor W. Adorno

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning. - Mircea Eliade

Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term. - Carl R. Trueman

The greatest service, you can do, to the existence, is serving yourself. If you serve yourself and take care of, yourself, anything that comes out of you, will add meaning and beauty to life. - Roshan Sharma

Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said. - Jean M. Auel

When people say they try to find themselves, their inner self, to understand the meaning of life I smile and I say, instead why don't you create yourself and give a new meaning to your life - Anubhav Mishra

Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem. - Pushkar Saraf

Information may appear in a digital form but meaning never does. - R.A.Delmonico

....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning. - Thomas Merton

The awareness begins with a feeling of restlessness—an inner urging to find more meaning in life. As we respond to this inner prompting we begin to notice the chance coincidences—strange synchronistic events in our life. We begin to realize that some underlying process is operating our life. - James Redfield

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake. - Diogenes Laërtius

Anger may not have been derived from the Hindi word 'angaar' meaning Fire...however coincidentally both are equally destructive. - ketan r shah

Sometimes I just say that to read one thing more than twice is just a losing of time, but some stuff are used a lot of times, are read a lot of times until the meaning is get... - Deyth Banger

There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different. - Piper Payne

The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning. - James Plath

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. - W. Somerset Maugham

James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning. - Ayn Rand

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. - George Orwell

With every sunrise our hearts sing with joy, our minds dance with love, and our lives get new meaning - Debasish Mridha

Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions - Duncan William Gibbons

If you know the results, why will you try to solve the problem? If you know the meaning of life, why will you try to understand it? Sometimes it is better not to know the answer. - Debasish Mridha

If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that? - Lauren B. Davis

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash. - Joyce Carol Oates

Ish #28 "Give you child a name with meaning. - Regina Griffin

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent. - Sorin Cerin

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. - David Viscott

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. - C.G. Jung

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. - Philip K. Dick

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

Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less. - Donna Lynn Hope

Why do you write meaningless philosophy? you asked. Because it gives meaning to life, I whispered with deep empathy. - Debasish Mridha

That I talk about that doesn't mean anything, that my name is like this doesn't mean anything... that I watch this and listen to this doesn't mean anything - Meaning of All By DeYth Banger - Deyth Banger

Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember? A sense of meaninglessness is really, therefore, a call to let in higher awareness and truth. - Robert Holden

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event. - Aaron Siskind

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