Meaning Quotes - page 20

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life. (John Taylor Gatto)
The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected. View quote
John Coleman
The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with Thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mired in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to a higher frequency in consciousness and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion. View quote
John Randolph Price
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow. View quote
Anodea Judith
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time. View quote
Etgar Keret
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist. View quote
Jean-Georges Noverre
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences? View quote
Christina Baker Kline
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang. (Lisa See)
Death did not play favorites-He loved all equally. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure. The god's voice-not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. View quote
Les Brown
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete. View quote
Joanne Harris
I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite. View quote
Kim Ki-duk
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community. View quote
John O. Brennan
Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others. View quote
Ann Brashares
The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters. View quote
Brian Michael Bendis
Man lives in a world of meaning. View quote
George Herbert Mead
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. Only we can know that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.. (Giorgio Morandi)
A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart. View quote
Keri Hulme
One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions. View quote
Heather Langenkamp
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers. View quote
Layne Staley
Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle