Top 1200 Meaning Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. You cannot tell me who I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life.

Life isn’t fair." I said. "It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You’ll make plans, and it’ll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they’ll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You’ll try for something and won’t get it. You don’t have to find meaning in it; you don’t have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That’s your job.

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don’t know about, and if I haven’t done it, I’ll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.

When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at.

I do kind of transcend the song and give it a different meaning.

Live with fewer things that have greater meaning.

I am the dictionary meaning of the word introvert.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.

Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something to the person next to him, who repeats it not very distinctly to the next person, and so on until, by the time the last person hears it, it comes out completely transformed. Of course, as he explained to me, the meaning in Finnegans Wake is obscure because it is a 'nightpiece.' I think, too, that, like the author's sight, the work is often blurred.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

One of my favorite books is 'Man's Search for Meaning.'

Everything is always coming from something else. Even if you create something, it has to be inspired by something else. If you think of Apple and Steve Jobs, he had to be inspired by something that launched the ideas in his head.

No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.

I do believe that the Barack Obama administration has reached a new low by using the instruments of the state against its political adversaries. Obama does not see people who disagree with him as well-meaning opponents but rather as enemies. That's not something that Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton did as President. Probably Obama's direct descendant in this line is Richard Nixon. And Obama seems to have carried Nixonian tactics to a new low. So, we've turned a corner in American politics that doesn't bode well for our future.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

Why does man need a meaning to life?

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

Listening is the process of creating meaning in the speaker.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.

I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

When I really like something, I try to put my all into it. This is something thats different from when I was growing up on the basketball court, running up and down, scoring 30 points or something. This is totally something different.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

Dhoni is one guy who doesn't know the meaning of fear.

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.