Top 100 True Meaning Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I was only one person among many. None of us made a difference individually, but together we all did." It was the true meaning of community.
Danielle Steel
#3. My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
Elfriede Jelinek
#4. The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act.
- Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.
Paulo Coelho
#5. How do they manage to go on living? ... By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.
Naomi Ragen
#6. The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#7. If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.
Fred Bear
#8. The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.
Sheridan Hay
#9. Art should be expressed without objectification.It's more than just attraction. Creative expression is not "art for art's sake" but art that breathes true meaning.
Henry Johnson Jr
#10. The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
Percy Williams Bridgman
#11. Money had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.
Haruki Murakami
#12. Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.
Eckhart Tolle
#14. We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.
Al Gore
#15. Everyone at the bar turned toward The Breeze and waited, as if the next few words he spoke would reveal the true meaning of life, the winning numbers of the lottery, and the unlisted phone number of God.
Christopher Moore
#16. We would make our heroes shallow ... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.
Anne Rice
#17. Before seeking the true value of things, you must first define its true meaning.
Adele Mandez
#18. American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
Bryant H. McGill
#19. Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.
Robertson Davies
#20. If you don't appreciate all genres, then you'll never experience the true meaning and beauty of music.
Jon Luvelli
#21. Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin
#23. Some situations can never be explained. You will only receive the true meaning of them through experience.
Lace
#24. The true meaning of our philosophy will be unintelligible to the arrogant, the boastful and the mocking. Beware of those who exhibit such traits.
Joanne Owen
#25. If you want to discover the true meaning of Zen in your everyday life, you have to understand the meaning of keeping your mind on your breathing and your body in the right posture in zazen.
Shunryu Suzuki
#26. When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite "thank you," it is the recognition of dependence.
Billy Graham
#27. Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
Matt Groening
#28. The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
#29. Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#30. Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#31. What's troubling is that because the camera is 3D, the northern part of the screen isn't necessarily north anymore. So the jungle transforms into the true meaning of a jungle. For someone with no sense of direction like myself, I get lost in the caves every time.
Hideo Kojima
#32. What is art? ( ... ) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life - love and sacrifice.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#33. What happens to you does not matter; what you become through those experiences is all that is significant. This is the true meaning of life." -- author unknown,
Erin Arvedlund
#34. Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions.
Ron Paul
#35. Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.
Henry Miller
#36. Sect. 32. Hawaiian authorities are able to throw no light, and conjecture, but little light upon the true meaning of Ia. It is evidently the name or appellation of, or stands to represent, some deity. (The only name of a deity corresponding in form to this is the Hebrew JAH. Ps. 68: 4.)
David Malo
#37. Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
Sue Monk Kidd
#38. Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?
Django Wexler
#39. I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
Kate Winslet
#40. We seek forgiveness with dhikr so much that we forget the true meaning of Dhikr.
Zarina Bibi
#41. I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.
King Edward VIII
#42. Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#43. We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world - but only if the arts are alive and flourishing can we experience the true meaning of our freedom, and know the full glory of the human spirit.
Richard M. Nixon
#44. This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back.
Suketu Mehta
#45. The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely what is happening. In a low growth economy, the true meaning of resource efficiency in business and in everything we do is essential
Phil Harding
#46. 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
#47. Be content, Be grateful, Be loving, Be happy, and this lifestyle will not only change YOUR life, it will change OUR world. I finally grasped the true meaning of let go- let God. (An excerpt from Finding Inner Peace)
Alice Hocker
#48. My 11 #books come without pomp n frills, for all seeking #true #meaning & unafraid of overcoming past conditioning. #Rewards are infinite
Michael Levy
#49. The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.
William Blackstone
#50. I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become ... This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.
David Malouf
#51. In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.
E. M. Forster
#52. Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens.
Stephen LaBerge
#53. Those who don't understand the true meaning of a Master/slave relationship will never see that in submission a woman holds more power than the man she's given herself to.
Michelle Hughes
#54. For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.
Christopher Moore
#55. Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul understood true meaning of love.
Christina Westover
#56. The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result.
Roshan Sharma
#57. Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#58. The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
Pamela Anderson
#59. I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.
Anya Seton
#60. He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.
Rachel Joyce
#61. The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
Leo Tolstoy
#62. Tonight you will be visited by three spirits. The ghosts of indictment past, present, and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.
Jim Butcher
#63. Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss?
Never heart could ever miss
Comfort, where true meaning is.
Nicholas Breton
#64. Upon entering into the divine domain of transcendence, all these religious founders truly felt that they had accessed the true meaning of the universe, while in reality, what they had access to, in that state of mind, was their inner self.
Abhijit Naskar
#66. You'll never know the true meaning of winning until you've lost" - Pierre S. Hughes
Pierre S. Hughes
#67. CHURCH, not CHOCOLATE, is the TRUE MEANING of EASTER!!
Joanne Harris
#68. I hate the word fine. It is descriptive of nothing. Socially acceptable filler with no true meaning. It's what you say when you are checking your feelings, unwilling or unable to let yourself be too happy or too sad. Fine. It's an emotional bookmark. A pause until you can continue the story.
Emme Burton
#69. I'm into the true meaning of Christmas - Faith, Family, and Facial hair.
Jase Robertson
#70. I was born with a heart that was two sizes too small, but when I saw my baby, it was like the Grinch discovering the true meaning of Christmas.
Jim Gaffigan
#71. Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.
Miya Yamanouchi
#72. Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.
Andrew Solomon
#73. God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
Thomas Carlyle
#74. This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term. (Hear, hear.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
#76. It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth
whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.
Galileo Galilei
#77. Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.
Paulo Coelho
#78. I think animals help us live; they've helped me live. It was only when I began to devote myself to protecting animals that I blossomed completely. Taking care of them, looking out for them, has given my life true meaning, a meaning I hope future generations can experience.
Brigitte Bardot
#79. Only one knows, speaks, and lives according to what he has within. One who has the universe within him knows the true meaning of the universe. Living as the will of the universe by becoming the universe is true life.
Woo Myung
#80. The first step into the realm of giving is ... not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.
Lilias Trotter
#81. Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here.
Lance Armstrong
#82. At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
Banksy
#83. Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is the true meaning of ninja..
Masaaki Hatsumi
#84. We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.
Fred Rogers
#85. I was starting to understand the true meaning of soul mates. They weren't necessarily people who you are supposed to spend forever with. No, they are people who know you, and who you'll always be connected with, no matter what time passes and where you are in the world.
Angela Richardson
#86. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#87. The Teachers, even of Christianity, are in general, the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is as incomprehensible as the Sohar. p. 105
Pike, Albert
#88. It was not until much later when, after a deep and satisfying orgasm, I suddenly realised the true meaning of the fairy tale and the nature of the magic kiss of which it speaks.
Germaine Greer
#89. Nebraskans know the true meaning of life ... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.
Jason Peter
#90. The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana.
Bassui Tokusho
#91. We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.
Dalai Lama XIV
#92. The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#93. In the midst of all the candy and commercialism, let's not lose sight of the true meaning of Halloween: tree worship and animal sacrifice.
Dana Gould
#94. God is the inevitability of humanity's search for true meaning.
Jared Brock
#95. There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
Lisa See
#96. The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
#97. Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
Alexander Hamilton
#98. Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of life's pleasures. This is the message from Mack Bolan, book after book, and it is the only thing dignifying this type of fiction.
Don Pendleton
#99. How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?
Sarah Addison Allen
#100. Such strength behind these eyes, that your soul glows through. Blinding. Captivating. Torturing. You may be as stubborn as a mule on a cliff side but any man would find the true meaning of foolishness to ever forget these facts.
Stephanie Hudson
