Meaning Quotes
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There's a perpetual duel going on between the world of the spirit and the world of things. Although the one only has meaning in relation to the other.
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Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
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I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.
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I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.
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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.
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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.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
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As for myself, I was trying to see if there was a way I could take meaning, which was at the same time vision, and not have the vision be an ornament to meaning. The vision had to be meaning, but it also still had to be vision.
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The double meaning has been given to suit people's diverse intelligence. The apparent contradictions are meant to stimulate the learned to deeper study.
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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.
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Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.
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We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.
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Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
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To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
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Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.
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There is no meaning, Liam. Honestly, that’s an exhausting way to live. Sometimes things just are. There’s no message from the great beyond or God or whoever. Life evolves.
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Time has a way of putting things in perspective, of assigning meaning.
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...and then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.
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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.
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Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
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Poetry interprets the chaos of human life and tries to bestow meaning on it. Without imagination there could be no poetry; and imagination chained by ideology produces only propaganda.
