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Freedom rests on finding the meaning and lessons even in our greatest pain. — Lee L Jampolsky

All reality seemed to hinge on those infinitesimal bundles of meaning. — Iain M. Banks

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

Our lives take on meaning to the degree that our love and our actions are the same. — Bob Harris

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

Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus ... meaning that it keeps things moving but it's neutral when it comes to the direction they move in. — M.R. Carey

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

The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world. — Avijeet Das

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

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life. — Mother Teresa

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

When somebody on the outside fits with your inner image, you fall in love
that is the meaning of love. — Osho

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity. — Jean Houston

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

In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs. — Amit Ray

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

Being a mom kind of grounded me in a way. Your body takes on a whole new meaning. — Kelly Overton

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. — Ray Kurzweil

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

We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected — James Wright

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

Children are the greatest philosophers : the questions that children ask require the deepest of thoughts and the longest of reflections on life! — Avijeet Das

I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can. — Taylor Hicks

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor. — Anne Rice

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning. — Kedar Joshi

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

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning. — Joy Harjo

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 never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning. — Arnold Hano

You need pain to wake you up and ponder on the meaning of life — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. — David Hackworth

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. — Norman Cousins

To find meaning and truth in life place a blindfold on and observe your surroundings, you may find it right in front of you.-Mark Miller — Mark Miller

Om is a living phenomenon and it has its own mood. Depending on its mood the meaning will be revealed to you. — Amit Ray

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

Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life — Barry Schwartz

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

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. — Carl Jung

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 wrist
Meaning: 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

Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading. — Will Advise

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning. — Susan Moody

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

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door). — William Maxwell

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side. — Martin Seligman