Meaning Quotes
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Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin of silence, so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
Rei Kawakubo
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The true meaning of the precepts is that one should refrain not only from drinking alcohol but also from getting drunk on nirvana.
Bassui Tokusho
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I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.
Meghan McCain
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Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
David Steindl-Rast
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I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.
Amitava Kumar
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Quotes are empty and meaningless. It is how they are used that gives them purpose, how the person repeating those words gives them meaning. Good quotes do not offer the author immortality. Instead, they give the author limitless rebirths on the tongues of the masses.
Andy Clark
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The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
Paul Kurtz
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I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
Eyvind Kang
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That isn’t who you are. You’re afraid. And you cannot have a life of great meaning if you make decisions out of fear.
Barbara O'Neal
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I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
Thomas Lynch
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According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.
Haruki Murakami
