1,900 Quotes About Meaning
- Author June Jordan
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And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or need to honor with our own.
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- Author Wisława Szymborska
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I am who I am.A coincidence no less unthinkablethan any other.I could have had differentancestors, after all.I could have flutteredfrom another nestor crawled bescaledfrom under another tree.Nature's wardrobeholds a fair supply of costumes:spider, seagull, field mouse.Each fits perfectly right offand is dutifully worninto shreds.
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- Author J.R. Rim
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Protecting your treasure means to give your life for it.
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- Author Bob Anderson
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When direction and meaning are confined to Executive Leadership, value is minimized.
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- Author Janne Teller
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Non è il significato quello che abbiamo raccolto nella segheria?" Sophie guardò Frederik dritto negli occhi finché lui non abbassò lo sguardo, facendo si con la testa. "Se rinunciamo al significato non ci resterà niente!"Niente! Nessuna cosa! Nulla!"Siamo tutti d'accordo?" Ci passò in rassegna uno a uno con uno sguardo più bruciante che mai. "Il significato non è la cosa più importante di tutte?
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- Author Baby nology
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Babynology.com explores baby names of all origins; you can get plenty of baby names along with meaning and origin. You can even search the meanings of your baby names.
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- Author Jules Cashford
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A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.
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- Author Jason Haxton
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A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.
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- Author Iain M. Banks
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Lying here, during all this time after my own small fall, it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what we want them to mean. We’ll pluck significance from the least consequential happenstance if it suits us and happily ignore the most flagrantly obvious symmetry between separate aspects of our lives if it threatens some cherished prejudice or cosily comforting belief; we are blindest to precisely whatever might be most illuminating.
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