Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

I always fought against vulgarity, double meaning dialogues and wearing la'dies' clothes.

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

I know it sounds corny, but I think the meaning of life is to do what you love and be happy.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I think we have to go through a lot of rituals in order to fill the gap of meaning in our lives.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

The pitch is the most beautiful part of the game; it gives you emotions which bring meaning to life.

I boil down people to 'good heart' or 'bad heart' - meaning they're basically good or basically not.

Being named to the Olympic team has special meaning to it because I feel like I've come full circle.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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