Quotes of: Real-meaning Keyword

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The Meaning of Life

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Paul Tillich

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Brad Henry

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Albert Camus

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

Amit Kalantri

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Michael Ignatieff

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

James Balog

Sanji: That's right he's a rubberman Chopper: What do you mean? Sanji: I mean he's a monster

Life

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

Perhaps this is what Henry James meant when he talked about the “irresponsibility” of characters. Characters are irresponsible, art is irresponsible when compared to life, because it is first and foremost important that a character be real, and a...

The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel

I say, "Well then I don't know if it was real, and that makes me feel like I'm going insane again." "Absolutely it was real. It was a real, partial picture. Because it ended preemptively, things you would have learned about him in the relationship, y...

Your Voice in My Head

In your life, right here and now, things like mermaids, fairies, witches and monsters are nothing but fairytales told to your grandchildren and stories you heard from your own grandparents as children. They exist only in your imagination. Did you eve...

Marilena Mexi

I'm of the opinion that many Christians are in deep denial about the reality of there being 'real' Evil in this world. Evil that cannot be reasoned with; is reprobate, incorrigible, determined, un-appeasable, violent, murderous, and unrelenting. I fi...

R. Alan Woods

In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life wh...

A.A. Milne

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