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I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to… — Toni Morrison
A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary to find your… — David Emerald Womeldorff
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose… — Barbara De Angelis
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade… — Ansel Adams
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him. — Norman Cousins
The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to… — Mahatma Gandhi
"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said… — Robert Frost
Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose. But more importantly,… — Don King
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove… — Elwyn Brooks White
The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only… — Nelson Algren
Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always… — Todd McFarlane
Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ… — Brian D. McLaren
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we… — Ben Okri
I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if… — Ansel Adams
Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word. — John of Salisbury
The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text… — Jonathan Culler
Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless — Jonathan Culler
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life. — Donald Barthelme
Is death that which gives meaning to life? — Donald Barthelme
My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'. — Thomas Pynchon
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of… — Robert Coover
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a… — Edward Abbey
The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning. — Edward Abbey

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