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Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.
— Melina Marchetta
I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is simply a trick.
— Drummond Money-Coutts
Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.
— Frederick Lenz
Being in touch with oneself is the meaning of meditation, to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
— Barbara Tuchman
The man - god - could control the weather, for God's sake. Annnd now that phrase took on a whole new meaning.
— Laura Kaye
A change of perspective may be all it takes to transform a painful experience into a powerful growth experience.
— Iyanla Vanzant
If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its chance occurrences and paradoxes.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
Life without purpose, is time without meaning.
— Kiley Callaway
Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.
— Rebecca L. Walkowitz
I can handle scars, especially ones that are on the outside.I understand his meaning from the depths of my heart. — Jessica Sorensen
Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.
— Marianne Williamson
We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts
— C.S. Lewis
I always set myself huge goals each year, and I'm pretty good at manifesting them, which ends up meaning I take a lot on my plate.
— Angela Lindvall
All the higher values in life get redefined on a regular basis for good; there is no static meaning as such.
— Harshit Walia
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
— George Eliot
If money could buy us happiness then some of the richest people on earth would be more than one million times more happier!
— Avijeet Das
On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up. — Alberto Caeiro
Tomes on the meaning of life. Poets and playwrights were
— John Dickson
It's the special things close to home, and the breadth of life, that makes our time on this earth so valuable.
— Fennel Hudson
I love the smell of coffee when I wake up in the morning. It gives me the awesome feeling of hope!
— Avijeet Das
Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.
— Mary Balogh
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.
— Kris Vallotton
Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.
— Mahershala Ali
Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'.
— Fennel Hudson
Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.
— Gregory Benford
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
— Jackie Robinson
I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.
— Charlton Heston
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Meaning is always a latecomer. Beauty and music seduce us first; later ashamed of our own sensuality, we insist on meaning.
— Clive Barker
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
— Tom Stoppard
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
— George Herbert
Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.
— P.D. James
In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
— Albert Einstein
Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.
— Stephen Richards
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
— James Harvey Robinson
People living godly will dwell on high. Meaning wealth, honour, prosperity, fame, elevation, joy etc.
— Sunday Adelaja
You're like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life
— Shannon Dermott
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
— Will Oldham
You need pain to wake you up and ponder on the meaning of life
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
— Norman Cousins
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
With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore.
— Hunter S. Jones
Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.
— David Allen
Often dream creates imageries based on your emotional inclination.
— Abhijit Naskar
One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness ... which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.
— William Everson
Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.
— Carmelo Anthony
Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?
— Virginia Woolf
You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.
— Aleksandar Hemon
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
— Aaron Copland
Each of you is a daughter of God. Reflect on all the wondrous meaning of that one paramount fact.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.
— Michael Josephson
Life took on quite a special meaning in this early morning solitude.
— Henning Mankell
People kept on longing for meaning and hope, but the annals of the past are a muddy story of chaos only.
— Richard Flanagan
To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.
— Joel Edgerton
You don't need the mirror to see what you have on your wristMeaning: the truth is visible and clear. — Ikechukwu Joseph
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
— Ernest Becker
Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning
— Angelus Silesius
You made a poet fall in love with the world.
— Avijeet Das
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
— Les Brown
You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
— Phillips Brooks
What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
— Terence McKenna
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
— Herbert Stein
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
— Viktor E. Frankl
We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.
— Anne Lamott
We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things.
— Richard Leider
You know when you look at a word on the page, I mean really look at it, it suddenly loses all meaning?
— Jaden Wilkes
