#meaning

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#lessons #literary-london #london #meaning #past

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#manly #meaning #meaning of #ones #patience

The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream. ↗

— David Mutti Clark

#dream #meaning #reality #spirituality #dreams

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#both #god #his #i #knew

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#itself #loves #meaning #meaning of #mind

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. ↗

— Christopher McCandless

#means #personal #personal relationship #phenomenon #relationship

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#interesting #meaningful #imagination

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#caused #fact #greek #limit #meaning

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#life #may #meaningless #only

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#comfort #else #engaged #enjoy #established