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Meaning Quotes
"You are living to the fullest when you live to discover and fulfill your purpose."
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"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."
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"And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old mess I'll stick my nose to begin with, the mess of that poor old uniparous whore and myself the last of my foul brood, neither man nor beast."
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"Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the 'meaner' meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading."
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"America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we value democracy and the rights of the individual, but because we are always our own most effective voice of descent....We must never mistake disagreement between Americans on political or moral issues to be an indication of their level of patriotism. If you don't like what I say or don't agree with where I stand on certain issues, then good. I'm glad we're in America, and don't have to oppress each other over it. We're not just a nation, we're not an ethnicity. We are a dream of justice that people have had for a thousand years."
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"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
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"The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing."
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"The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords."
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"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
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"Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning."
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
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"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
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"From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do."
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"The thing about 'colour' is that it's not all about the money or the prestige, but it's about showing what life is all about. Without it..."
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"Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours."
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"For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose."
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"For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability."
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"We cannot replicate other people's lives. We must each institute and broker a personalized meaning to our exclusive existence. We must each serve as our own Zen master, awaken to our inviolate personal truth, and strive to fulfill our sui generis (unique) nature."
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"Nothing is as important as your calling and purpose in life."
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"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"
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"The true meaning of your life doesn't lie in your experiences, but in your frequent positive interpretations of your past and present."
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"Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of life's turbulences stems from willingly capitulating to whatever fomented experiences life brings us without harboring a disconsolate degree of remorse or regret."
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"You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose."
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"But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there."
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"Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out."
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"The word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless."
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"The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end."
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