Quotes of: True-meaning Keyword

We like to think of individuals as unique. Yet if this is true of everyone, then we all share the same quality, namely our uniqueness. What we have in common is the fact that we are all uncommon. Everybody is special, which means that nobody is. The ...

How to Read Literature

This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want to be clear about that. I am not referring to the sort of patronizing recognition we give a writer by nodding our heads and observing, “Yes...

The Whimsical Christian: 18 Essays

Sometimes you need someone to extend a hand to you, someone to support you no matter what compromising situation you get yourself into. Someone that can look into your eyes and see deep down who you are, who you can be and who you will be. Someone wh...

Casey King Fingerlike

Ever reviled, accursed, ne'er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. "Wreck of all order," cry the multitude, "Art thou, & war & murder's endless rage." 0, let them cry. To them that ne'er have striven The 'truth that lies behind a word t...

John Henry Mackay

Henry Barthes: Y'know you can't... you can't keep living on the street... Erica: I'm not, I mean, I'm staying here with you. Henry Barthes: Well, you can't continue to stay here with me. I'm not good for you... Erica: That's not true. You're like, th...

Detachment

The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and d...

Walt Whitman

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

Everything Matters!

If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Loving another person always means opening yourself up for hurt, but it also means opening yourself up for the most amazing feeling there is.

Flawed and Damaged

Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should. And just because you can't, doesn't mean that you shouldn't try.

Guerrilla Business

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Thurgood Marshall

Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.

Kailash Kher

Give your best. It doesn't mean you'll get back best. Rather that doesn't mean you give up giving your best.

10 Alone

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.

Abduction

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

By Any Means Necessary

What do you mean by yuanfen?" She thought for a minute and replied, "It means: that apportionment of love which is destined for you in this world.

Hunger

Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life