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Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. -- Toru Takemitsu
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. -- Erich Fromm
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. -- Ray Kurzweil
Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game. -- Talulah Riley
I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning. -- Raul Castro
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. -- Walter Kaufmann
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. -- Mortimer Adler
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive. -- Naveen Jain
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience. -- Leland Ryken
One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny. -- Melissa Pritchard
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. -- Hermann Hesse
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it. -- Robert Dallek
Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without having the high overhead costs of running a restaurant. -- Homaro Cantu
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings. -- Steven Pinker
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. -- Paul Tillich
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives. -- Randy Harrison
Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. -- Orson Welles
I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything. -- Billy Graham
Love has a reason There's a meaning to the world We're giving love. -- Gavin DeGraw
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition. -- Ronald A. Heifetz
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. -- David Steindl-Rast
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. -- Adrian Grenier
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love. -- Cesar Chavez
The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. -- Frederick C. Beiser
I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter. -- Tobias Wolff
Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning...because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. -- Hiromu Arakawa
Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures. -- Alan McCluskey
A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things. -- Oprah Winfrey
The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life). -- Ajahn Brahm
Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now. -- Blake Mycoskie
They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'. -- Margaret Thatcher
Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine. -- Gwen Davis
Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die. -- Bryce Courtenay
It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone "? it doesn't always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time. -- Miranda July
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and, unfortunately, extremely pervasive. -- Naveen Jain

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