Quotes of: Meanness Keyword

If you don't feel the pain with others, you wont know the meaning of sharing happiness...

Life

Sometimes people say things that they don't mean, but sometimes they don't mean it but it's true...

Life

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

Viktor E. Frankl

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Vincent Van Gogh

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

William Safire

When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself. When I speak of good eyesight, I do not mean looking at others; I mean simply looking at yourself. He who does not look at himself but looks at othe...

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and again, would ever be able to grasp the meaning of its suffering. Unanimously, the group replied that of course it would not...

Man's Search for Meaning

The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience means nothing if it does not mean beyond itself: we mean nothing unless and until our hard-won meanings are internalized and catalyzed...

Christian Wiman

Mason: Dad, there's no real magic in the world, right? Dad: What do you mean? Mason: You know, like elves and stuff. People just made that up. Dad: Oh, I don't know. I mean, what makes you think that elves are any more magical than something like a w...

Boyhood

Billy Costigan: When are you gonna take Costello, huh? [animated] Billy Costigan: I mean, what's wrong with taking him on any one of the [yelling] Billy Costigan: million fucking felonies that you've seen him do, or I've seen him do? I mean, I mean, ...

The Departed

Michael Longo: [showing a picture of his new girlfriend] You think she's good-looking? She's smart, too. She's gonna be a teacher. Tony DeVienazo: Let me see that. Oh, I know this girl. Michael Longo: Yeah? Tony DeVienazo: Yeah... I saw her kissing a...

Mean Streets

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

George Herbert

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

English

To contradict means sometimes to knock at the door to see if anyone is at home.

French

One minute of patience can mean ten years of peace.

Greek

Meanness looks through one eye only, ambition is blind.

Russian

When a merchant talks about sheep he means the hide.

Swiss

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

Happiness and Contemplation

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Jerome Bruner

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Selected Essays

Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife