Top 1200 Search For Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.

You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.

There’s no greater search than that of lost love.

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Online advertising is display plus search.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

I suspect in Lenin's works there's everything, if you search well.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to search for who I am.

All of us are in search of something or the other, be it dreams or success.

Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Racing is the constant search for the weakest link.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

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I want to give you something.” He slid the ring off his finger. “Up until this week, I’ve never wanted anything more in my life than to wear this ring. Not as a piece of jewelry, but because I thought I could find meaning in saving others, in being a hero. But the meaning I’ve finally found in my life is from meeting you.” He set the ring on the palm of his hand and held it out. “I want you to have it.

[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something beyond its mere ordinary meaning, while also retaining all the qualities of that ordinary meaning. In other words, it's a bear, but it's also suggesting something else, just by virtue of the attention to it. But it's not "symbolic" in that way we are taught to think about things in poems.

Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.

The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

If you are a Christian, your search for approval should be over.

The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.

Vesco was always on the trail in search of money.

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.

There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.

I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth to every encounter. You don t look for the right partner, you become the right partner. And then the right partner finds you. It s a very active practice focused on healing.

Amazing the things you find when you bother to search for them