Meaning Quotes
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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?
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I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.
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I don’t want [my paintings’ subject matter] to be seen as a just a button. So they have to be read as not a button or a flower but something abstracted from which you can derive meaning.
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The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.
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Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
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People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
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Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.
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Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
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The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
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There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.
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If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.
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A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
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We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
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A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.
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To me, the meaning of life is to be happy, it's to achieve happiness right now. It's to make sure your happy in the future and that generally when you look back on your life you're like; yes, that was satisfactory. And if some people on youtube try to have a message to give people, I guess that mine is; Do whatever you have to do to be happy.
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It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely... when we realize the meaning of this saying, we are already preparing ourselves for the gift of the power of direct spiritual experience.
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You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.
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If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
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The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning.
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I have heterochromia, meaning that one eye has two split colours. It's a diagonal cut in half. It's amazing how many people don't know that until they meet me and we talk long enough for them to see it.
