T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“The meaning and the purpose behind some events are unknowable. This is the ultimate test of our faith. We must trust that everyone in life is here to learn different lessons at different times, that good and bad experiences are only the perceptions of man. After all, some of your worst experiences have truly been your best. They've sculpted you, trained you, developed within you a sensitivity and set you in a direction that reaches out to impact your ultimate destiny.”
“The meaning and worth of love, as a feeling, is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for ANOTHER the same absolute central significance which, because of the power of our egoism, we are conscious of only in our own selves. Love is important not as one of our feelings, but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very centre of our personal life. This is characteristic of every kind of love, but predominantly of sexual love; it is distinguished from other kinds of love by greater intensity, by a more engrossing character, and by the possibility of a more complete overall reciprocity. Only this love can lead to the real and indissoluble union of two lives into one; only of it do the words of Holy Writ say: 'They shall be one flesh,' i.e., shall become one real being.”
Source: The Meaning of Love
“The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“The meaning behind your passion, whether it be for hospitality, law, or hot sauce, now translates into value. In the Age of Ideas this is what the market demands, and you have the power to give it to them by unlocking your unique creative potential.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”
“The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.”
“The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.”
“The meaning is in the waiting.”
Source: R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry
“The meaning lies in the appropriation.”
“The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.”
Source: Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional
“The meaning of a communication is the result you get.”
“The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.”
“The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe
“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 or the experience of a reader. Meaning is an inescapable notion because it is not something simple or simply determined. It is simultaneously an experience of a subject and a property of a text. It is both what we understand and what in the text we try to understand.”
Source: Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
“The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time, and so forth. It's alive.”
“The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.”
Source: The Cross of Christ
“The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.”
“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...”
“The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.”
Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
“The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it”
“The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.”
“The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.”
“The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.”
Source: The Journals
“The meaning of Hell is the rebirth to further sink in the ignorance, ego, and immaturity. It is the symbol of low-grade curiosity. Come out of the hallucination of the term 'hell'. Hell does not exist.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The Meaning of 'Home'
As I travel from one city to another
From one country to another
From one sorrow to another,
I encounter thousands of faces:
In streets, shops, parks, and cafés.
They all ask me the same painful question:
'Where are you from?'
As if they know, I am from a place that lost itself and lost me
On a long, cold, and sad winter night.
They ask me: 'What is your country known for?'
I tell them: 'My country is known for exporting sad stories,
refugees, and displaced people.
All those who were cursed by being born in it.'
Similar questions continue to be asked in cocktail parties,
In hypocritical and mediocre gatherings,
In conferences and boring meetings.
Some pretentiously ask me: 'How do you define "home"?'
I respond with Ghassan Knafani’s words ringing in my ears:
'Home is for all of this not to happen.'
April 19, 2014”
Source: أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]
“The meaning of it all is unfolding right under our noses, all the time, but we can't see it. We don't pay any attention. We were taught from childhood to avert our gaze, lest we be considered fools. So now we seem to live in some kind of collective trance, lost in a daze the likes of which have probably never before been witnessed in history. We feel the gaping emptiness and meaninglessness of our condition in the depths of our psyches. But, like a desperate man thrashing about in quicksand, our reactions only make things worse: we chase more fictitious goals and accumulate more fictitious stuff, precisely the things that distract us further from watching what is really happening. And, when we finally realize the senselessness of such reactions, we turn to 'gurus' doling out pill-form answers instead of paying attention to life, the only authentic teacher, who is constantly speaking to us. There is no literal shortcut to whatever it is that the metaphor of life is trying to convey. There is no literal truth. The meaning of it all cannot be communicated directly. There are no secret answers spelled out in words in some rare old book. The metaphor is the only way to the answers, if only we have patience and pay attention. Look around: what is life trying to say?”
Source: Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There is no Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything
“The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.”
Source: Classics Revisited
“The meaning of life can best be simplified as gratifying a personalized set of instincts.”
“The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.”
“The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.”
Source: The symbolic & the real: a new psychological approach to the fuller experience of personal existence
“The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.”
“The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.”
“The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.”
“The meaning of life for someone is a meaning of someone's life.”
“The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.”
“The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called "worthwhile goals". Money, fame, power, good looks, possessions are the indicators of success and the media and advertising companies exploit this. People are conditioned to believe that they can only feel happy or good about themselves if they have these things. This of course is not true.”
Source: So, You Want to Be Rich... But Jesus Doesn't.
“The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'”
“The meaning of life is a personal definition, as unique as the individual; that meaning will emerge during one’s lifetime as the major quest for fulfillment, something to act on that will give value to one’s life and leave behind as their greatest legacy.”
Victorious Faith In Jesus Christ: Creates Good Christian Conduct by Joan Jessalyn Cox”
Source: Victorious Faith in Jesus Christ: Creates Good Christian Conduct
“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.”
“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”
“The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.”
“The meaning of life is everything or nothing.
The secret of life is knowing the difference.”
“The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.”
“The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.”
Source: Zen and the Birds of Appetite
“The meaning of life is found in the search for meaning.”
“The meaning of life is happiness.”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
Source: Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969
“The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.”