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My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning.
— Emma Cline
Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.
— William Kent Krueger
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
— Thomas Aquinas
I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.
— Ziggy Marley
Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.
— Neel Burton
People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.
— Daniel H. Wilson
We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.
— Jacob Needleman
Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.
— Anna Lyndsey
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
— Viktor E. Frankl
If you want meaning for your brand or company, dare to embrace conflict
— Antonio Nunez Lopez
Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.
— Austin Carlile
Heart connection brings meaning to life and spirit to body.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
Their lives are what hold meaning. Dying is simple. Living for something is much harder.
— Mark T. Barnes
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.
— Viktor E. Frankl
One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
— Criss Jami
My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.
— Karen Armstrong
When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain.
— Henci Goer
The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Why do you so earnestly seek
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart. — Ryokan
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart. — Ryokan
Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.
— Elin Hilderbrand
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!
— Michel De Montaigne
She has no body as others have. People have no meaning to her. She has no answer for them. Her mind steps into emptiness, alone.
— Virginia Woolf
I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
— Cary Elwes
I was looking for what the meaning of life was.
— Shakti Gawain
But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.
— David Cronenberg
Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life.
— Ernest Becker
In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
— Walker Evans
What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?
— Brodi Ashton
The basic human craving is for meaning.
— Colin Argyle Thomson
Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.
— Sidney Hook
A woman eats to feed her pussy. Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.
— Chuck Palahniuk
What's a year in comparison with eternity? what's a day? an hour? a second? Such measures have meaning only for a heart that's still beating.
— Amin Maalouf
Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.
— Paul Klee
For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose.
— T.F. Hodge
I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.
— Paulo Coelho
You look for your meaning. You find it, and at that moment, your meaning changes, and you have to start all over again.
— David Mitchell
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.
— Robin Roberts
The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.
— Johanna Paungger
The meaning of existence is to evolve. To change. That is what we are biologically equipped for. To recognize and adapt to our ever-changing world.
— Ruben Papian
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
— Grace Paley
A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness
— Dalai Lama
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life
— Eric Hoffer
When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.
— Temple Grandin
Nothing has meaning except for the meaning you give it.
— T. Harv Eker
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
— Charlie Chaplin
Does the meaning of Jesus Christ for, say, George W. Bush have anything at all in common with his meaning for, say, Francis of Assisi?
— Richard Seaford
Freedom has real meaning when, for example, a situation of temptation arises and one remains God-fearing, steadfast, and in control of one's actions.
— Hamza Yusuf
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.
— Bruce McCulloch
For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept
— Sigmund Brouwer
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.
— Slavoj Zizek
There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.
— Cynthia Daignault
Grab tightly to the reigns of passion and ride into glory for without it life would be stagnant and you would be a spirit without cause.
— Donna Lynn Hope
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.
— Wassily Kandinsky
Life is easier lived when lived for others.
— Chris Matakas
You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle.
— Robert Breault
The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.
— Auguste Rodin
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.
— Carl Jung
Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome.
— Scott Turow
For till the thunder and trumpet be,
Soul may divide from body, but not we
One from another — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Soul may divide from body, but not we
One from another — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
— Donald Miller
Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and search for it.
— Avijeet Das
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.
— Meridel Le Sueur
America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
— Nelson Rockefeller
It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
— Ricky Williams
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?
— Christina Baker Kline
We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
— Nate Silver
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
— Alan Moore
This world's no blot for us,
Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink. — Robert Browning
Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink. — Robert Browning
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— Michael Levy
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
— Erich Fromm
If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when it begins?
— Steven Cuoco
Exotic: meaning you're "desired."
For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.
So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive. — Joyce Carol Oates
For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.
So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive. — Joyce Carol Oates
Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.
— Raneem Kayyali
One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness ... which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.
— William Everson
I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.
— Rob Zerban