Top 22 Genuine Meaning Quotes
#1. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Stanley Kubrick
#2. Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.
Michael Coren
#3. Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.
Helen Lynd
#4. I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It's a genuine vocabulary.
Soar
#5. They told me that Billy would never come back any more, and I stared out of the window at the sun which came back, right enough, every day, and their news conveyed nothing whatever to me.
Kenneth Grahame
#6. The Buddhist approach to this collective suffering is to turn toward it. We understand that genuine happiness and meaning will come through tending to suffering. We overcome out own despair bby helping other to overcome theirs.
Jack Kornfield
#7. The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart.
Dalai Lama XIV
#8. Christ is the singular embodiment of truth, infinitely plural in meaning. Christ is the sum and hidden interior meaning of all other genuine revelations of God
Thomas C. Oden
#9. Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.
Mitch Albom
#10. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic
ignorance.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#11. If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility
Dalai Lama
#12. The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.
Fareed Zakaria
#13. To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.
Isabelle Adjani
#14. Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less.
Donna Lynn Hope
#15. Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.
Bryant McGill
#16. A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
Criss Jami
#17. If all we ever offer is blanket praise without any meaning behind it, kids will always seek approval because they'll never feel satisfied. If we offer genuine encouragement for their accomplishments, they won't need our approval; they'll approve of themselves.
Kelly Bartlett
#18. I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend
Dalai Lama
#20. War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is a difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops
Errol Morris
#22. Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.
Dalai Lama
