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To have more, give more
To be happy, love more.
We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
(1.) To repent without despairing; (2.) To believe without being presumptuous; (3.) To rejoice without falling into levity; (4.) To be angry without sinning.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.
I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.
It means that you are my freedom, love."
"Yes," she whispered. That was it exactly. "And you are mine.
Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning we give it.
Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.
It means 'female dog,'" I'd explained to my sisters, "but it also means 'a woman who's crabby and won't let you be yourself.
Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.
Simple words have the complicated meaning.
Circumstance points to deeper meaning.
Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!
Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.
I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.
When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.
To stand in the shadow
of the scar up in the air.
To stand-for-no-one-and-nothing.
Unrecognized,
for you alone.
With all there is room for in that,
even without
language.
you can make mean anything.
To be hated! to love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, one's fame, one's salvation, one's immortality and eternity,
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
I've spent enough time studying languages to know that almost any phrase can have two meanings
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.
Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!
You, my dear, have already found your meaning. All there is left to do now ... is dance.
Meaning is not in things but in between them.
The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.
Translation: I'm an idiot.
Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Words don't mean, people mean.
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies.
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.
That's the beauty and the curse of the 'engrafted word'... it all comes down to interpretation.
Hear the meaning within the word.
It means something, but it doesn't change anything.
To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities.
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
To be free, to rise and leave everything, without a glance back, behind. To say "yes".
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
The perception of meaning, as I see it, more specifically boils down to becoming aware of a possibility against the background of reality or, to express it in plain words, to becoming aware of what can be done about a given situation.
Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.
The meaning of a word, then, seems to consist of information stored in the heads of the people who know the word: the elementary concepts that define it and, for a concrete word, an image of what it refers to.
Positive;
Positive mindset, positive soul.
Positive soul, positive spirit.
Positive spirit, positive strength.
Positive strength, positive action.
Positive action, positive impart.
Positive impact, positive society.
Positive society, positive world.
To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
in a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning. Meaning
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of
If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.
All the higher values in life get redefined on a regular basis for good; there is no static meaning as such.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
In the big scheme, it means little. But in our little scheme, it's big.
To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one's hands are fast enough.
Unknown meaning, I thought. That was me.
When a word ceases to be a term of description and becomes merely a term of praise, it no longer tells you about the object: it only tells you about the speakers attitude to that object.
It's someone who views life as a game where the rules are poorly written and designed for abuse.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Dream what others do not.
Imagine what others have not.
Do what others will not.
Achieve what others could not.
It means that every waking breath you take, every step you take, you don't just take to move your own life forward, but ours. You take it knowing I'm right there with you, irrevocably tied to every decision you make.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
It meant he was a cat and he'd do whatever he pleased, when he pleased, and if I didn't like it, that was just to bad.
Everything means something.
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
To give something meaning, is to give something hope, It is to give something life.
That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone - not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.
Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it.
The fact that you don't grasp the meaning of something doesn't mean it has none.
To live a life half dead, a living death.
To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.
The kindest interpretation would be: 'Hope springs eternal.
In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.
Indeed, the power of words has gone to man's head in more than one way. To define has come to mean almost the same thing as to understand.
There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.
hi sadaa sukham.' It means that one cannot have happiness alone.
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.
Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls.
A meaning without a cause or a purpose, is just another word without a meaning.
No action is safe from meaning.
There is something very curious in semantics, that the word 'meaning' is probably, in the whole language, the word the meaning of which is the most difficult to find. What does 'to mean' mean?
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
Meaning comes from engagement in positive work that challenges our personal capacity combined with knowledge that our positive work is making a larger contribution to the overall well-being of humanity and life on the planet.
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.
Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing.
Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.
It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.
To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world.
It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.
Thankful. Blessed. Loved.
Duty,sacrifice, they mean something.
Eat bitter taste sweet
Friend. Before Mark, I'd known its definition. Now I knew its meaning.
Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible and visible only to the spirit.
It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.
A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.