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  • The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
  • It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. -- Sarah Silverman
  • I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it. -- Will Oldham
  • But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. -- Ernest Holmes
  • It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! -- Christopher McCandless
  • I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is simply a trick. -- Drummond Money-Coutts
  • My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe! -- Mallory Jansen
  • People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art. -- Alfred Stieglitz
  • When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music. -- Kyp Malone
  • Tarots tell different sides of the various personalities that exist in all of us. I find it fascinating how they combine names, images, and numbers. You don't need to be able to read them, or know their real meaning, to be charmed. -- Domenico Dolce
  • I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. -- Warren Buffett
  • We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music. -- Kyp Malone
  • 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
  • We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are. -- Faith Hill
  • I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success. -- Robbie Williams
  • What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him. -- Joyce Meyer
  • The real meaning of a poem is to stop time. -- Ralph Fletcher
  • Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Real life is to be found in natural things that have meaning. -- Fennel Hudson
  • An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. -- Alfred Edersheim
  • The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need." -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning. -- Prince Royce
  • The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds -- Nelson Mandela
  • True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world. -- Gregory David Roberts
  • When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. -- Jean Baudrillard
  • The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. -- Pete Seeger
  • The real meaning of mercy is that it can look on failure and still see a future. -- John Claypool
  • It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun -- Charles Bukowski
  • Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. -- Sue Monk Kidd
  • Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is -- John Green
  • You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity. -- Homer
  • The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love. -- Harold Klemp
  • The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons. -- Peter Carey
  • The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings. -- Margaret Mead
  • All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem. -- Stephen Covey
  • The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love. -- Mary Balogh
  • In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things. -- Constantin Brancusi
  • Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things. -- Herbert Read
  • Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it. -- Walter Kirn
  • To catch the real meaning of the Spirit of Christmas, we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the Spirit of Christ. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected. -- John Coleman
  • The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
  • You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams. -- Hans Bellmer
  • I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. -- Tryon Edwards
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  • Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning. -- Elvis Presley
  • If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena. -- Martin Amis
  • The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience. -- Edward Abbey
  • People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective. -- Kevin Systrom
  • Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student. -- Jim Trelease
  • The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated. -- Allan Kaprow
  • In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time. -- James Fenton
  • If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us. -- Francis Schaeffer
  • Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity. -- Jean Houston
  • In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'. -- Scott Fahlman
  • We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so. -- Terry Brooks
  • The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue. -- Paul Tournier
  • It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you. -- Jon Krakauer
  • People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning. -- Mark Ryden
  • Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived. -- Sangharakshita
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  • Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more you will feel happy. This is the real meaning of service. -- Rajneesh
  • When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning--and we will not be free again until we get it back. -- Alan Keyes
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