#meaning

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it. ↗

— Richard Helms

#clients #court #done #failed #fourteen

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#believe #expression #faith #lies #lives

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#composition #example #expose #for example #i

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#arrive #convey #inspiration #last #may

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ↗

— Carl Jung

#happiness #lose #meaning #sadness #were

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ↗

— Carl Jung

#least #life #meaning #more #than

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. ↗

— Leon Kass

#late #life #meaning #notion #science

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#federal #first #house #hundred #meaningful

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#everything #get #i #i think #important

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #concern #concerns #contains #grasped