Top 1200 Search For Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?

Ideas are what we make a living out of. Whether it's a song or a talent search, we are in the business of thinking.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

To understand the mindset of the connected consumer, one must realize that everything begins with search and intent.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.

Everybody loves good humour and in movies, we are in search of things that make viewers laugh.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

True it is,/ That these are not the droids for which thou search'st. -Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has to be thoughtful and mature about how you depict it and how you think it through. You have to think about the effects that violence has on audiences, and it's deployed so casually that I think it's losing its meaning. And when things like violence and murder and the dehumanization of other people lose their meaning, then we're really kind of in a place where we have to reexamine and take a hard look at ourselves.

Because addiction is a developmental problem, the developmental stage is important, things like employment are important, things like having a sense of purpose, meaning and hope are important, and this is why there's been so many spiritual cures for addiction, because those things often give people a sense of meaning and purpose.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

When you have had the high of being on stage, especially in a band like ourselves, I can't help but search for that buzz.

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

The 800 pound gorilla just entered the blogosphere, with Google launching its blog search.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

I think I'm evolving, I'm always in search of bettering myself, how I can improve as a sportsman and as a person.

Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.

In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes.

Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.

Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born. If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we're healing.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

I've learnt that there's a soul mate somewhere in this world. Till you don't find that person, the search goes on.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.

Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.

Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction

That's the mark of a really great actor, when he can make you feel the emotion without having to search for it.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.

SEO is knowing what the search engines want and giving it to them... so hard they f***ing bleed

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!

The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search.