1,900 Quotes About Meaning
- Author Patrick O'Brian
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The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.
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- Author Franny Billingsley
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Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.
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- Author David Eagleman
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As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and reasons, even when there is none - which leads it continually to make mistakes.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Overrated is order.
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- Author Marion Zimmer Bradley
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And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; one of the Druids, giving instruction in the secret wisdom to the young priestesses, had said, If you would have the message of the Gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats, again and again; for this is the message given you by the Gods, the karmic lesson you must learn for this incarnation. It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.
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- Author Irvin Yalom
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More than death, one fears the utter isolation that accompanies it. We try to go through life two by two, but each one of us must die alone- no one can die our death with us or for us. The shunning of the dying by the living prefigures final absolute abandonment
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- Author M.F. Moonzajer
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Butterflies better understand than you, the meaning of love and sacrifices one must make for their beloved.
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- Author Orson Scott Card
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who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.
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- Author Paul R. Halmos
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[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing—one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me.
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