#meaning

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning. ↗

— Idi Amin

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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ↗

— George Steiner

#language #larger #meaningfully #much #only

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#been #bestowed #life #live #lives

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#death #i #meaningless #mtv #stuff

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. ↗

— Wynn Bullock

#i #me #meaning #nature #something

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#ear #engage #equal #fiction #inner

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. ↗

— Richard M. DeVos

#buy #cannot #heal #into #life