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What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. — Charlie Chaplin
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… — Stuart Chase
The sea has neither meaning nor pity. — Anton Chekhov
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and… — Carol P. Christ
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost… — Winston Churchill
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. — Emile M. Cioran
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. — Carl von Clausewitz
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning. — Dorothy Allison
I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist. — Diablo Cody
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without… — Leonard Cohen
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is… — B R Ambedkar
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning. — Idi Amin
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they… — A. R. Ammons
The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society. — Pamela Anderson
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. — Maya Angelou
Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a… — Christopher Reeve
I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the… — Penn Jillette
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life. — Robert Browning
As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep… — William Arthur Ward
Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say,… — Mayim Bialik
What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts:… — Sogyal Rinpoche
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are… — David Whyte
The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life. — Woody Allen

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