Quotes of: True-meaning Keyword

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answe...

Man's Search for Meaning

As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recogniz...

Man's Search for Meaning

Seduced by the spectacular theoretical and practical successes of the objective sciences into thinking that the methods and criteria of those sciences were the only means to truth, philosophers sought to apply those same methods and criteria to quest...

Love

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

Contempt

...Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable. Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings. p.338

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Have you ever heard of the theory that it is better for one man to die than an entire nation to suffer? Do you believe that to be true? Is it ever okay to take a life in hopes of saving others?

Defy

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

Dracula

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

Eat Now; Talk Later: 52 True Tales of Family, Feasting, and the American Dream

The beauty of the human soul Is not the pretty face. It’s found within the heart and hands Of those who look — and stay.

Eye of the Beholder: True Stories of People with Facial Differences

Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.

Eye of the Beholder: True Stories of People with Facial Differences

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

Eona: The Last Dragoneye

Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace: The Transcendental Principle of Life Applied to Diet and the Regenerative Discipline of True Health

But the true miracle of the resurrection wasn't so much the raising. Is something like that too hard for the God who made the universe? The true miracle is in the forgiving. And though we are bruised and burned, blind and broken, we are forgiven.

Embrace Me

Have you ever gotten to a point where you looked at your own life, thought "Fu** this," and reached for the economy-sized Valium? Ah, suicide. So dark and seductive.

Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict

She will always be etched in my being, like thread sewn through the fibers of my very soul.

Finding Anna: A Memoir: The True Story of Child Sexual Abuse

You have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now, you can drown in the stink, or turn it into compost and grow a garden.

Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict

Girls don't go to law school," I told him. "No, but women do.

Fairy Tales Can Come True: How a Driven Woman Changed Her Destiny

Their love story had ended long ago, and yet one smile from him brought it all back, the joy, the heartache, everything. True love stories never have endings.

Finding Home