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I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep... There was an impact that was made, but it wasn't the usual.
Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.
Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
I must always try to do better because perfectionism, and the need to always have new goals and achieve them, is a state of mind that brings profound meaning to life.
There is a saying in Arabic meaning that every situation must be considered based on the realities on the ground. I can talk in some places freely, but not in others.
I always tell people, 'It'll get greater later' meaning that sometimes we have to pass through whatever it is. We know that we can get through it because others have.
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.
I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.