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Meaning Quotes by Thomas Merton
- No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he…
- O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
- For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into…
- The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
- Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our…
- Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
- In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility…
- ....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because…
- First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and…
- It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one…
More Meaning Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
- Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to… — Robert Baden-Powell
- It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have… — Ansel Adams
- When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams
- I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some… — Toni Cade Bambara
- Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. — Dennis Banks