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I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. -- Ray Bradbury
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. -- Aristotle
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
We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things -- Errol Flynn
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines. -- Joseph Conrad
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was also partying a lot, and when you party that much, you feel irrelevant to the meaning of things; things hit you with a very sick center. And 9/11 is no exception to that. I really wondered: "How could anything go on?" -- Carlos Dengler
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. -- Stanley Spencer
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales. -- Alan Watts
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. -- Hermann Hesse
I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite. -- Kim Ki-duk
Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories. -- Nate Berkus
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. -- Carl Jung
When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do. -- Willie Geist
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. -- Norman Cousins
One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions. -- Heather Langenkamp
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures. -- Ben Goldacre
I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else. -- Lauren Willig
Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love. -- Billy Ocean
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
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation. -- Bridget Riley
High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game. -- Willie Geist
Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things. -- Tino Sehgal
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. -- Michael Pollan
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don't know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us. -- John Bytheway
I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate. -- Jon Crosby
One of the things you'll discover... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work. -- Erwin McManus
Live with fewer things that have greater meaning. -- Dominique Browning
Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything. -- Carl Jung
When people are finding meaning in things -- beware. -- Edward Gorey
Resist doing things that have no meaning for life. -- Pablo Casals
Meaning is not in things but in between them. -- Norman O. Brown
Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. -- Tony Robbins
Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things. -- Rob Brezsny
Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning "gatherer of beautiful things. -- Rob Brezsny
There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention? -- Yasmin Mogahed
Real life is to be found in natural things that have meaning. -- Fennel Hudson
People want things with meaning. I know that because I want that. -- Blake Lively
Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things. -- Tom Shadyac
Meaning is not found in things; meaning is what you make of things. -- Robert Holden
Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action. -- John Dewey
Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things. -- David Allen
To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life. -- Paulo Coelho
I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake. -- Diogenes
Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. -- Wallace Stevens
It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read. -- Daniel Handler
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ... -- Fay Weldon
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people. -- Jeff Koons
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. -- Vincent Van Gogh
My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. -- Barbara Taylor Bradford
For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. -- Bill Nye
The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. -- Haruki Murakami
I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning. -- Ziggy Marley
One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another. -- Lewis Carroll
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Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite. -- Stephanie S. Tolan
Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. -- Lesley Howarth
Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons -- Ron Paul
Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments. -- Gregory J. P. Godek
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn -- Mark Twain
Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things. -- Richard Leider
I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me. -- Harold Ramis
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life. -- Robert Browning
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything. -- Carl Jung
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
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. -- N. Scott Momaday
Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don`t think life has very much meaning. -- Christopher Plummer
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When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently. -- John Dewey
Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning. -- Chath Piersath
Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them?? -- Peter Lindbergh
Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose. -- Doris Grumbach
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. -- Tim Winton
Life's like that. As we grow and change, some things we've experience before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life. -- Richelle Mead
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? -- Christina Baker Kline
I think that all things are spirit and are derived from spirit. When you look at life from that perspective, it takes on a whole new meaning. -- James Van Praagh
What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love. -- Nicholas Sparks
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it. -- Douglas Kennedy
The theory of meaning says that joining and serving in things larger than you that you believe in while using your highest strengths is a recipe for meaning. -- Joel Garreau
The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot about that stuff. -- Jerry I. Porras
I need to open this door of self in order to throw out everything that is useless and to save the meaning ofthe things I have to keep. -- Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
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
Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself). -- Tony Hsieh
With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event. -- John Henry Newman
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things. -- Sam Keen
Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things. -- Christina Baldwin
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning. -- Alan Lightman

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