Meaning Quotes

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Mae West

Someone, Coffee, Asked

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
Michael Jackson

Life, Single, Present

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

Happiness, Sadness, Lose

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams

Words, Tools, Tyrant

Man - a being in search of meaning.
Plato

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin

Life, Book, Person

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx

Peace, Socialism, Absence

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Epictetus

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Plato

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
Barbara de Angelis

Life, Age, Special

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin

Truth, Words, Universe

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Viktor E. Frankl

Today, Live, Means

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie Chaplin

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

Life, Word, Spirit

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Richard M. DeVos

Life, Peace, Money

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm

Life, Living, Act

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach

Life, Fear, Wonder

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

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams

Through, Divorce, Word

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick

Music, Feelings, Film

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

Real, Serious, Here

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz

Life, Happy, Purpose

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
Mitt Romney

Spiritual, Moral, Commitment

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol

Long, Enough, Afraid

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.
Mitt Romney

Great, Powerful, Lost

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
Suze Orman

Life, Happiness, Courage

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Humanity, Serve

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell

Thinking, Motto, Himself

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm

Search, Condition, Certainty

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