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Meaning Quotes
On the search for purpose, and the peace of not always finding one.
One quote describes falling through space where time itself loses meaning, while another ties real meaning only to work born of inner compulsion rather than obligation. See more in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
- Nov 07, 2020
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.
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- Nov 07, 2020