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I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only… — Sam Savage
If I had a worldview, and I don’t know if I do, but if I did, it’s one that’s intensely humanistic. [That worldview] is that… — Eric Kripke
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is… — Judith Lewis Herman
By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as… — Percy Williams Bridgman
Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work,… — Eric Greitens
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… — Robert Bringhurst
A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized… — Gregg Easterbrook
Against Nature's silence I use action In the vast indifference I invent a meaning I don't watch unmoved I intervene and say that this and… — Peter Weiss
Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them… — A.S.A. Harrison
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human… — Armstrong Williams
The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands… — J.R. Miller
Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time instead of giving… — Melissa Rosenberg
In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade… — Anthony Storr
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that… — Anthony Storr
In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw… — Eric Maisel
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in… — Regina Brett
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics,… — Sydney J. Harris
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do… — Susan Orlean
My dream had been shattered, but then re-created, fashioned into something with more meaning and becoming more precious. — Unknown Author
The meaning of life is happiness. — Dalai Lama
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery:… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life). — Ajahn Brahm
When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it… — Edgar Winter

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