Meaning Quotes - page 18

People who look down from some high peak on a vast sea below, probably feel what my mind has felt, looking out from the sublime words of the Lord as from a mountain-top at the inexhaustible depth of their meaning. (Gregory of Nyssa)
Since some ecclesiastics deem it right to stand always by the literal meaning of the holy scripture and do not agree that anything in it was said through enigmas and allegories for our benefit, I consider it necessary first to speak in defense of these things to those who bring such accusation against us, because in our view there is nothing unreasonable in our seriously studying all possible means of tracking down the benefit to be had from the divinely inspired scripture. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
Finding happiness is not as simple as having good friends or a full social life. The crunch issue is our ability, or inability, to find within ourselves a sense of meaning or deeper purpose, something not found in everyday life. View quote
Mark Vernon
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be. View quote
Martha Beck
The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now. View quote
Marshall Goldsmith
As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves. View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it. View quote
Michelle Williams
The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot coffee every morning. People keep giving me marijuana. I've got pouches in a drawer. I've been meaning to smoke a joint and watch Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. I planned to do this three months ago and I still haven't gotten around to it. View quote
Nick Tosches
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. (Otto Rank)
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life. View quote
Peggy Orenstein
Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money. View quote
Paul Zane Pilzer
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. View quote
Rick Riordan
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens. View quote
Andrew Solomon
I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering. View quote
Ruta Sepetys
I'm a public man, my princess. That means my only meaning is the web of signs I publicly inhabit. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within. View quote
Vishnudevananda Saraswati
Oh, this beast? It's... perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. (Stephen Greenblatt)
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. View quote
Suze Orman
Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew. View quote
T.A. Barron
Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against. View quote
Philippa Gregory