Top 1200 Life Means Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society - Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.

Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.

The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Oh, I get it, it's simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and 18 means everybody gets the girl.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any topic - anything that you hold dear like the relationship between a father and son or a mother and daughter, what it means to be married or what it means to be single or what it means to be a free spirit or what it means to be an artist - if you just put a halo on something and say it's untouchable - "that is special and that is perfect" - you immediately close your eyes to the truth of it, because the truth is that nothing is perfect.

Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.

When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, “I have a better plan for you

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.

I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life.

True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.

With the way Amazon and eBay had become big companies and with the way people were embracing technology, I was like, it is so obvious that this is going to be a huge game changer in this space. The combination of these things is going to change what it means to retail, what it means to launch brands, what it means to connect with your consumer.

As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.

It means so much to be a part of bringing James Baldwin's words to life.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent. It means that billionaires can't make unlimited campaign contributions and buy and sell politicians. It means that the U.S. government represents the needs of all the people, not just the 1 percent and their lobbyists.

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that could be harmed by the human hubbub, life does not already exist there. If not, then by all means build cities, plant forests and fill lakes and streams with trout -- bring life to Mars and Mars to life. We'll then be the Martians we've been dreaming about for all these years.

The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.

Nourishment means a quality of life; consistency in the way we treat ourselves.

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

Jesus means life to me. Jesus is our savior. When I think about Jesus, I think about the sacrifice He made so that we may have eternal life. I can certainly tell you I'm not afraid to die, and I certainly have a peace about my life.

Some risks are worth taking, even if it means losing a life.

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.

Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.

What you think means more than anything else in your life.

You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship. That's it.

Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. Speeding through life endangers our relationships and our souls.

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness - mine, yours, ours - need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.