Meaning Quotes
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Maybe I should tell her that things without a meaning are the most beautiful ones.
Elena Ferrante -
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
Neel Burton
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God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
Thomas Carlyle -
Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.
Ezra Taft Benson -
The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau -
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Rene Magritte -
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
George Eliot -
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.
Nathaniel Dorsky
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My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.
Charles Dickens -
All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich -
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
Haruki Murakami -
I've never been a snob. It movie is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"
Steven Soderbergh -
In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
Ray Dalio -
The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
Satish Kumar
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People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.
Albert Camus -
No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
Jules Verne -
Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to have a means of foretelling exactly what will befall us, this kind of fate is only normally revealed after a life has ended. Only then can the meaning of that life be understood.
Andrew Gamble -
But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
John Ruskin -
When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
Carre Otis -
I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
Haruki Murakami -
Life without pain has no meaning.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Where is it written that lives should have a meaning? So she began to disparage all that struggle of mine to write. She said mockingly: Is the meaning that line of black markings that look like insect shit?
Elena Ferrante -
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.
Bram van Velde