Meaning Quotes
Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.
How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.
Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.
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
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.
It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you.
To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.
It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.
The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.
At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.
It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.