Top 100 Real Meaning Quotes
#1. I discovered that the real meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with you at all. It is about a very special gift. I want to you tell you about this gift.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#2. The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.
Jim Corbett
#3. Experience is beyond knowledge, words and speech.
It is experience which shows us the real meaning of life.
Gian Kumar
#4. Life is a great asset we must all endeavor to acquire, keep and daily maintain it well with all due diligence, for without life, all other assets have no real meaning to our lives.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#5. We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.
Faith Hill
#6. The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#7. Life is life! The real meaning and definition of life is not wealth, though wealth can define and give meaning to life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#8. Nobody can know ... just how heavy a burden trying to protect another human being can be. I was still a child. I couldn't have understood the real meaning of my promise.
CLAMP
#9. I guess that's what happens when you've lost everything that had any real meaning. You become numb to what's left.
Melyssa Winchester
#10. Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more you will feel happy. This is the real meaning of service.
Rajneesh
#11. The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time.
God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.
Oswald Chambers
#12. Love, in all its fragile forms, is the one powerful, enduring force that brings real meaning to our everyday lives ... but the love I mean is the fire that burns inside us all, the inner warmth that prevents our soul from freezing in the winters of despair.
Bradley Trevor Greive
#13. Imparting trust, the real meaning of delegation, is a powerful thing.
Scott Berkun
#14. The most important things aren't always in the main story; sometimes the real meaning is scribbled in the margins.
Isabelle Rowan
#15. When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#16. Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#17. The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.
Paul Tournier
#18. Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.
Sangharakshita
#19. If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena.
Martin Amis
#20. The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds
Nelson Mandela
#21. It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!
Christopher McCandless
#22. The business of the missionary, and the business of the Christian Church in any situation, is to challenge the plausibility structure in the light of God's revelation of the real meaning of history.
Lesslie Newbigin
#23. If you are to become what you are meant to be, you have to first find your real meaning!
Leslie Austin
#24. To put the issue bluntly, are the Beatitudes true? If so, why doesn't the church encourage poverty and mourning and meekness and persecution instead of striving against them? What is the real meaning of the Beatitudes, this cryptic ethical core of Jesus' teaching?
Philip Yancey
#25. Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'.
Fennel Hudson
#26. The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
#28. I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
Will Oldham
#29. Most employees are never made or allowed to understand the real meaning behind the work that they are doing. So, for how long can someone remain motivated about chasing something without knowing what he is chasing and why?
Abhishek Ratna
#30. My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.
Terence McKenna
#31. I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.
Robbie Williams
#32. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the "real meaning" of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
Marvin Minsky
#33. The real meaning of the sacred texts gave me greater determination to attack evils like caste, animal sacrifices and other rituals being propagated by the priestly class. I was determined to curb meaningless rituals and sacrifices and put an end to the curse of caste. We
Anand Neelakantan
#34. I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.
Kyp Malone
#35. True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the media.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#37. Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.
Herbert Read
#38. I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett
#39. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.
Jon Krakauer
#40. I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth ...
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#41. Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Pope John Paul II
#42. Freedom has real meaning when, for example, a situation of temptation arises and one remains God-fearing, steadfast, and in control of one's actions.
Hamza Yusuf
#43. If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.
Francis Schaeffer
#44. The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.
Harold Klemp
#45. It's all about finding the real meaning, without it everything is meaningless.
Sahel Akmal
#46. People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.
Mark Ryden
#47. The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning for people. On the other hand, if one begins with the Bible's position that man is created by God and in the image of God, there is a basis for that person's dignity.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#48. The entire life we have has it's real meaning in giving! He who least knows the real value of giving that can leave a distinctive footprint least knows what the essence of life is about
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#49. The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
Pete Seeger
#50. We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.
Alan Dershowitz
#51. she was the kind of woman who couldn't live without meaning, powerful and real meaning, in her life.
Sierra Simone
#52. True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.
Pope Paul VI
#53. When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.
Meher Baba
#54. The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.
Hans Bellmer
#55. When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning
and we will not be free again until we get it back.
Alan Keyes
#56. We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
Terry Brooks
#57. All those who have travelled through life gathering stories and in old age choose to earn their keep by telling them are suddenly hit by the real meaning of incidents that lay buried somewhere. And then they pause and wonder. Wonder and pause
Vishnu Bhatt Godshe Versaikar
#58. It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun
Charles Bukowski
#59. There is no best and no worst, ... those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is
John Green
#60. In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.
Constantin Brancusi
#61. Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance.
Siobhan Davis
#62. Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
Tryon Edwards
#63. Those who read the Scriptures as magnificent literature, breath-taking poetry, or history and overlook the story of salvation miss the Bible's real meaning and message.
Billy Graham
#64. Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.
Alfred Stieglitz
#65. So many people understand language, but few people understand the real meaning of language. They that understand the meaning of language understand language and life better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#66. Nobel intentions have no real meaning to them if you don't do it solely for you. Do it to satisfy your soul, not theirs. Don't do it in hope that it earns you a reward at the end, instead let the reward be the beauty created as a result of your actions.
Kendal Rob
#67. The pursuit of material-external things as if they can provide deep and lasting happiness is contributing to a dwindling of real meaning and is a factor contributing to an increase in mental health problems. It just isn't possible to fill the hole inside us by piling up the things outside us. pg9
Dr Stephen McKenzie And Dr Craig Hassed
#68. I woke up, smiling to myself at this dream with its allegorical aspects but with no real meaning.
Jean De Berg
#69. The young artist ... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.
Allan Kaprow
#70. It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Sarah Silverman
#71. your happiness
comes before
anyone else's
happiness
-the real meaning of "self-respect.
Amanda Lovelace
#72. The real meaning of the word paranoia is
a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.
John Coleman
#73. The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.
Mary Balogh
#74. I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is simply a trick.
Drummond Money-Coutts
#75. My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!
Mallory Jansen
#76. I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.
Sylvester Stallone
#77. Shalom is understood to mean peace, but peace is only one part of the word's real meaning. The root shalem means completeness.
Celso Cukierkorn
#78. She understood as women often do more easily than men, that the declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.
Peter Carey
#79. The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
Gregory David Roberts
#80. Every tattoo should tell a story of the person inside. Each is open to interpretation to the viewer. No one has to know the real meaning if you don't want them to.
Charisse Spiers
#81. Tarots tell different sides of the various personalities that exist in all of us. I find it fascinating how they combine names, images, and numbers. You don't need to be able to read them, or know their real meaning, to be charmed.
Domenico Dolce
#82. Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.
George Eliot
#84. The real meaning of mercy is that it can look on failure and still see a future.
John Claypool
#85. For some things there are no explanations - no reasons, and so, when these things happen, there is nothing to talk about really. And it is best not to dwell on said things for too long, because you will find that life has no real meaning if you do.
Matthew Quick
#86. Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.
Ellsworth Kelly
#87. People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.
Noam Chomsky
#88. But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Ernest Holmes
#89. PEACE DOES NOT MEAN TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO NOISE, TROUBLE, OR HARD WORK. PEACE MEANS TO BE IN THE MIDST OF ALL THOSE THINGS AND STILL BE CALM IN YOUR HEART. THAT IS THE REAL MEANING OF PEACE.
Various
#90. There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.
Bryan Adams
#92. The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#94. The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.
Edward Abbey
#95. When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.
Jean Baudrillard
#96. In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself
the task of a lifetime
becomes the answer.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#98. PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#99. is not the time you spend with someone, it is what happens in that time. I have known people for years, and yet never met the real person inside, if there is one. Others I have spoken with for only an hour or two, and yet what was said had meaning and honesty that will last forever.
Anne Perry
#100. Real life is to be found in natural things that have meaning.
Fennel Hudson
