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| Om jag kunde berätta vad jag menar så skulle det inte vara någon mening att dansa det. | Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) |
| Tystnad är bättre än meningslösa ord. | Pythagoras (569 f.Kr.-475 f.Kr.) |
| Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. | Annette Goodheart |
| I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. | Lucy Lawless (1968-) |
| Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with | Peter Elbow |
| Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it [is] he who is asked. | Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) |
| As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. | Norm Papernick |
| The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. | Alan Watts (1915-1973) |
| Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together. | Alan Watts (1915-1973) |
| There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it | Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) |
| Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living | Xenophon |
| Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. | Henry Youngman (1906-1998) |
| Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. | Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
| If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life | Elie Wiesel (1928-) |
| Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it [is] he who is asked. | Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) |
| If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion. | Adrian Forsyth |
| I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. | Lucy Lawless (1968-) |
| When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective | Arundhati Roy |
| It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' means | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| That depends on what the meaning of 'is' is | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up? | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. | Mitch Albom (1958-) |
| I miss the meaning of my own part in the play of life because I know not the parts that others play | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |