Quotes with meaning

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  • Eric Hoffer We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Martin Amis Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Barbara de Angelis What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Virginia Woolf When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Greg Anderson When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Ernest Becker When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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  • Herman Melville Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bergen Evans Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Voltaire Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • William Butler Yeats Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Blaise Pascal Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Stephen Hawking Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bruce McCulloch You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Sher You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Anthony Robbins You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Albert Camus You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Barbara Ward Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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