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I don't know the true meaning of happiness. -- Jonathan Davis
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. -- Bryant H. McGill
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. -- Matthew Arnold
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. -- Christopher McCandless
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. -- Sue Monk Kidd
The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society. -- Pamela Anderson
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. -- Josiah Royce
My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters. -- Charlene Tilton
As Liberal Democrats and proponents of federalism, we must put our heads above the parapet and recapture and disseminate the true meaning of federalism. We have to win the vocabulary before we succeed in the vision. -- Charles Kennedy
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. -- Elfriede Jelinek
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. -- Ansel Adams
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed. -- Bill Frist
For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship. -- Christopher Moore
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. -- Paul Gauguin
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. -- Ben Carson
I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to. -- Kate Winslet
Um, 'Soul Food'... Another wonderful little movie that could. Here's a film that, I think our budget was maybe $6 million. We shot it in Chicago in six weeks. I was so proud of the film, because it showed America that an African-American film about family could sell, could do well, could cross over and have true meaning. -- Vivica A. Fox
My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love. -- Yvonne Pierre
The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility. -- Anthony Jeselnik
This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts. -- Mother Teresa
Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word. -- Eckhart Tolle
When you're true to your heart, you're infusing your self with meaning. -- John de Ruiter
Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God. -- Jim George
The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. -- Theodore Dreiser
What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability. -- Haruki Murakami
I'm into the true meaning of Christmas - Faith, Family, and Facial hair. -- Jase Robertson
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. -- Nicholas Sparks
Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. -- Matt Groening
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. -- Matthew Arnold
Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang -- Lisa See
The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. -- Leo Tolstoy
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. -- Socrates
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. -- Confucius
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. -- Alexander Hamilton
Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large. -- Mas Oyama
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. -- Paulo Coelho
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. -- Michael Shermer
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. -- Robertson Davies
True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself. -- Kristine Carlson
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall. -- Jason Peter
The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart. -- Kabir
Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss? Never heart could ever miss Comfort, where true meaning is. -- Nicholas Breton
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. -- Nelson Henderson
It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is. -- James Taylor
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism. -- Henry George
I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. -- Aristotle
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. -- Max Frisch
My 11 #books come without pomp n frills, for all seeking #true #meaning & unafraid of overcoming past conditioning. #Rewards are infinite -- Michael Levy
At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse. -- Banksy
How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us? -- Sarah Addison Allen
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In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream. -- E. M. Forster
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. -- Thomas Merton
You're so young, you can't know the meaning of true regret. It's never what you've done, love, it's what you've left undone. -- Tessa Dare
It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else. -- William Tucci
I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning. -- Errol Morris
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. -- H. G. Wells
If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together. -- Fred Bear
Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell. -- Elijah Muhammad
The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana. -- Bassui Tokusho
I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him. -- Anya Seton
A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success. -- Michael Josephson
The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life. -- Paulo Coelho
The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities. -- David Zindell
In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice. -- Dana Gould
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions. -- Leo Tolstoy
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength. -- Anne Rice
When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence. -- Billy Graham
What is Friendship, Definition of Friend, True Friendship - All about the meaning of true friends, what friendship means, meaning of friendship bracelets, poems, ring -- Mark Vernon
That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true. -- Marc Webb
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it. -- Percy Williams Bridgman
Christmas is a joyous holiday season to celebrate get togethers; but take a moment to celebrate the true meaning that brought about the iconic joyous season. -- Wayne Chirisa
There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance Âand aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life. -- Abba Hillel Silver
Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour. -- Abdulrazak Gurnah
If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility -- Dalai Lama
Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. -- Amy Adams
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. -- Emily Carr
And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. -- Josiah Royce
When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success. -- Deepak Chopra
The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God. -- Martin Buber
God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell. -- Thomas Carlyle
Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is the true meaning of ninja.. -- Masaaki Hatsumi
Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life. -- Oswald Chambers
We are all accountable for our actions; their affect and influence on our lives and the lives of others. Understanding the true meaning of accountability makes us strong and enables us to learn -- Sameh Elsayed
Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated. -- Henry Miller
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here. -- Lance Armstrong
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Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens. -- Stephen LaBerge

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