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Meaning is not in things but in between them. -- Norman O. Brown
Meaning is not found in things; meaning is what you make of things. -- Robert Holden
Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with. -- Peter Elbow
Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after. -- Peter London
Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything. -- Carl Jung
Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. -- Julio Olalla
Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now. -- Peter Brook
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -- Hal Borland
Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku. -- Douglas Hofstadter
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains. -- Ralph Ellison
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! -- Samuel Adams
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Meaning, however, is no great matter. -- Charles Stuart Calverley
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. -- Clifford Geertz
In the beginngless beginning there was the Meaning -- Frederick Franck
Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless -- Jonathan Culler
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -- Leo Tolstoy
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. -- Andy Rooney
Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it. -- Seth Lloyd
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. -- Carl Gustav Jung
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. -- Benjamin Franklin
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. -- Viktor E. Frankl
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. -- Socrates
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. -- Richard M. DeVos
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. -- Thomas Merton
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. -- Muhammad Ali
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. -- Joseph Campbell
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. -- Helen Garner
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. -- Albert Camus
I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do. -- Heidi Klum
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. -- Stanley Kubrick
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life. -- Dan Buettner
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. -- Carl Jung
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. -- Viktor E. Frankl
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. -- Earl Nightingale
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
Money without meaning is meaningless -- Josh Bezoni
Live with fewer things that have greater meaning. -- Dominique Browning
The meaning of life is that it stops. -- Franz Kafka
When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty. -- Confucius
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. -- Miguel de Unamuno
People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning. -- Scarlett Thomas
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
When people are finding meaning in things -- beware. -- Edward Gorey
The meaning of life is to get meaning for life. -- Wayne Dyer
My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love. -- Yvonne Pierre
The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life. -- Bill Phillips
The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. -- George Carlin
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning -- Ruth Bernhard
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. -- Michael Jackson
Truth implies meaning. -- Lukas Foss
Love, life, meaning...over. -- Stephenie Meyer
Rhythm must have meaning. -- Ezra Pound
Don't confuse meaning with truth -- Thucydides
. . . all meaning comes from analogies. -- Douglas Hofstadter
Despair is suffering without meaning. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Abstraction is the enemy of meaning. -- Marshall Ganz
Love has no meaning without understanding -- Thich Nhat Hanh
The meaning lies in the appropriation. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Without philosophy, action has no meaning. -- Sebastien Foucan
Literature is language charged with meaning -- Ezra Pound
The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Give life meaning through your commitments. -- Paul C. Reinert
Culture is public, because meaning is -- Clifford Geertz
Hear the meaning within the word.... -- William Shakespeare
Everyone gets meaning in different ways. -- Sally Quinn
Purpose is what gives life meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Life without pain has no meaning. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Love gives life purpose and meaning. -- Joyce Meyer
The meaning of life is life. -- Alan Alda
What touches your heart is meaning. -- John de Ruiter
The meaning is in the waiting, -- R. S. Thomas
Learning is the making of meaning. -- Robert Kegan
The meaning of life is happiness. -- Dalai Lama
Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds. -- Robert J. Shiller
Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect". -- Richard Summerbell
What's the meaning of life? Other people. -- John Green
Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time. -- Soul Dancer
Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian) -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths. -- George R. R. Martin
Home ...Home. ...the word, ...has ...no ...meaning -- Ellen Hopkins
One should never mistake pattern for meaning. -- Iain Banks
Life without purpose, is time without meaning. -- Kiley Callaway
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning. -- Thomas Carlyle
Deep meaning lies often in childish play. -- Friedrich Schiller
Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute. -- Swami Vivekananda
We are the custodians of life's meaning. -- Carl Sagan
The meaning of life is to see. -- Huineng
If you make meaning, you'll make money. -- Guy Kawasaki
The Universe does not owe us meaning. -- Richard Dawkins
The sea has neither meaning nor pity. -- Anton Chekhov
Man lives in a world of meaning. -- George Herbert Mead
Time has no meaning,Love will endure.. -- Jude Deveraux
Touch is the meaning of being human. -- Andrea Dworkin
The meaning of religious truth is hope -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Man lives in a world of meaning. -- George Herbert Mead
I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything. -- Ellsworth Kelly
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
...a good poem contains both meaning and music -- Eve Merriam
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change -- Antonin Scalia
Unless there is meaning, there is no solution. -- Sol Sender
To order space is to give it meaning. -- Isamu Noguchi
It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness... -- Isamu Noguchi
love only variously everyday The meaning of love -- Mother Teresa
It is not peace we seek but meaning. -- Lawrence Durrell
Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. -- Rick Warren
Life without dreaming is a life without meaning. -- Wale
Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power. -- Germany Kent
Ordinary is a word that has no meaning. -- Robin Morgan
Man is a being in search of meaning. -- Plato
Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives. -- Brene Brown

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