Meaning Quotes
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An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
Alfred Edersheim
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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
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If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.
Confucius
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Ray Kurzweil
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A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
Charlotte Bronte
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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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Hero. People didn't even know the meaning of the word.
Arlene Hunt
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.
Confucius
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Such tensions without sense push us to formulate questions of meaning.
Elena Ferrante
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What does have absolute meaning, however, is the way in which we treat others, including animals. We shape our universe by the love or malice, the compassion or indifference, we bring to our relationships with our fellow beings. Under the God Theory, the requirement that you treat others with respect and compassion is, for all practical purposes, a moral absolute, since all beings participate in the infinite consciousness that created them. Other rules of morality may be judged by how well they do or do not serve the common good, which is not the same at all times and all places.
Bernard Haisch
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..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.
Haruki Murakami
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More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.
Rene Girard
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Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.
Celine Dion
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Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.
Dennis Covington
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.
Simone de Beauvoir
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And finally the silence, looking out, looking back across the sky, Trying to find a meaning, knowing that I just left it all behind
Ben Jelen
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Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.
Tim Ferriss
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Time has a way of putting things in perspective, of assigning meaning.
Cindy Chupack