Meaning Quotes
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Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Place a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.
African Spir
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...and then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.
Archie Macpherson
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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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Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
Neel Burton
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To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.
Ernest Becker
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If the whole meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear.
Brandon Mull
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There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
Albert Camus
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
Will Durant
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Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
Audrey Niffenegger
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You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.
Arnold Hano
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At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.
Nancy Newhall
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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.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning.
Arlene Goldbard
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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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Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.
David Steindl-Rast
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You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
Kazu Kibuishi
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Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
Michel Foucault
