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  • 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
  • I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. -- Wallace Stevens
  • Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. -- Hermann Hesse
  • I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people. -- Jeff Koons
  • Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. -- Oscar Wilde
  • 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
  • I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning. -- Ziggy Marley
  • When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do. -- Willie Geist
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it. -- Alan Alda
  • Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning. -- Octavio Paz
  • It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. -- David Lynch
  • 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
  • Live with fewer things that have greater meaning. -- Dominique Browning
  • Meaning is not in things but in between them. -- Norman O. Brown
  • Resist doing things that have no meaning for life. -- Pablo Casals
  • When people are finding meaning in things -- beware. -- Edward Gorey
  • Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything. -- Carl Jung
  • Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things. -- Rob Brezsny
  • Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. -- Tony Robbins
  • 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
  • I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Real life is to be found in natural things that have meaning. -- Fennel Hudson
  • 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
  • To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things. -- David Allen
  • Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake. -- Diogenes
  • Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ... -- Fay Weldon
  • It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read. -- Daniel Handler
  • 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
  • The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. -- Aristotle
  • One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another. -- Lewis Carroll
  • The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. -- Haruki Murakami
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  • For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. -- Bill Nye
  • 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
  • Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn -- Mark Twain
  • Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments. -- Gregory J. P. Godek
  • To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life. -- Robert Browning
  • 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
  • A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. -- Norman Cousins
  • Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things. -- Richard Leider
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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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