Meaning Quotes
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You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
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The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.
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Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
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I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge our Saviour's words "eternal death " into so horrible a meaning? And even if he did use other words, and seem to countenance such a meaning for them (and what witness have we that He did, except that of men whose ignorance or prejudice might well have interpreted these words wrongly as they did so many others?
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It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.
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I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.
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It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.
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Women were always ready to give themselves over for love, when all the men really had to offer them was the word and not the meaning behind it.
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It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
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People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
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You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.
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Life without pain has no meaning.
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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.
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Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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Being named to the Olympic team has special meaning to it because I feel like I've come full circle.
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Maybe I should tell her that things without a meaning are the most beautiful ones.
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
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I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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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.
