Meaning Quotes
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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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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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All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.
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Meaning is not in things but in between them.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it.
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I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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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.
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My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.
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If I don't have a meaning to what I am doing, I am not convinced to be a part of that activity.
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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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It is exciting. It is real meaningful if you are in Victory Lane with it. That is what we want to do. There are only a handful of cars that have that kind of meaning to it. Richard's car is one of them. But it isn't going to mean nearly as much unless you do something with it.
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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
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A place without meaning is no place to be.
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Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely.
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Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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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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As long as a memory is inaccessible, the mind is unable to change it. But as soon as a story starts being told, particularly if it is told repeatedly, it changes – the act of telling itself changes the tale. The mind cannot help but make meaning out of what it knows, and the meaning we make of our lives changes how and what we remember.
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Many lessons must be lived to be understood. You’ll find that it doesn’t so much matter what happens as you live—what gives it all purpose and meaning is who you become.
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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute ... that gives meaning to our lives.
