Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Meaning. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Meaning Quotes and Sayings from 99 influential authors, including Rainbow Rowell,Charles De Lint,Denis Thatcher,J.c. Ryle,Michael Oakeshott, for you to enjoy and share.

To have and hold. Not forever, maybe-not forever, for sure-and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers. By Rainbow Rowell Hold Forever Maybenot Figuratively Literally

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. By Charles De Lint Things

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think. By Denis Thatcher Companionship Life Meant Happy Objective

(1.) To repent without despairing; (2.) To believe without being presumptuous; (3.) To rejoice without falling into levity; (4.) To be angry without sinning. By J.c. Ryle Despairing Repent Presumptuous Levity Sinning

To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities. By Michael Oakeshott Thing Things Activities Define Distinct

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. By Alfred Adler Situations Meanings Determined Determine Give

The meaning lies in the appropriation. By Soren Kierkegaard Appropriation Meaning Lies

It means that you are my freedom, love.""Yes," she whispered. That was it exactly. "And you are mine. By Meredith Duran Love Freedom Whispered Mine

It's someone who views life as a game where the rules are poorly written and designed for abuse. By Chuck Klosterman Abuse Views Life Game Rules

Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. By Brian Spellman Ultimate Meaningless Meaning

The true, the universal meaning is that human existence is possible, only possible, in faith. In faith, the individual becomes the universal, ceases to be isolated, becomes meaningful and absolute; hence in faith there is a true ethic. And in faith existence in society becomes meaningful too as existence in true charity. By Peter F. Drucker Faith Existence True Universal Meaning

The way I write, words can means lots of different things. By Beth Orton Write Words Things Lots

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite. By Kim Ki-Duk Meaning Interpret Things World Single

To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true. By Robert Fulghum Scheme Place Things True Insist

Translation: I'm an idiot. By Alyssa Day Translation Idiot

Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to lovestarting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love. By Bell Hooks Imagination Starting Vital Map Journey

To live a life half dead, a living death. By John Milton Dead Death Live Life Half

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed. By Clifford Geertz Historically Meaning Socially Constructed Rhetorically

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. By Alfred Tennyson Strive Seek Find Yield

To be free, to rise and leave everything, without a glance back, behind. To say "yes". By Dag Hammarskjold Free Back Rise Leave Glance

To be hated! to love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, one's fame, one's salvation, one's immortality and eternity, By Victor Hugo Hated Soul Smiles Blood Vitals

Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance. By Bill Crawford Meaning Discover Life Chance Bring

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. By Matt Groening Words Sentence Makes Sense

Words take on many different meanings. By Erin Mckean Words Meanings

Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended. By Daniel Abraham Words Intended

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! By Marianne Moore Heavenof Dragon Immense Invisible Symbol

Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context ... There are no absolutes, there is no meaning without relationships, everything is not only interacting but interdependent. The kahunas use this idea to help give a person a powerfully secure sense of significance, while at the same time teaching him that to heal himself is to heal the world, and to heal the world is to heal himself. This is not a loss of individuality, but an understanding that individuality itself is a relationship with the environment. By Serge King Heal Environment Understood Relation Meaning

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us. By S.i. Hayakawa Words Meanings

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning we give it. By Anthony Robbins Meaning Life Give

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing. By Arthur Schopenhauer Ideas Words Intricate Phrases Expressions

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me. By June Jordan Educate Incessantly World

The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory. By J.i. Packer Circumstances Creator Goodwill Existence Guides

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? By Ludwig Wittgenstein Definition Terms Gain Lead Undefined

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it. By William James Meaning Long Define

To desire with one's very soul every second of every day to accomplish one's aim. By Yamamoto Tsunetomo Aim Desire Soul Day Accomplish

context is not meaning. By Claudia Rankine Context Meaning

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one's hands are fast enough. By Robert Bringhurst Drop Form Word Ripples Ocean

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them. By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Definitions Good Things Words Make

You, my dear, have already found your meaning. All there is left to do now ... is dance. By Colleen Hoover Dear Meaning Found Dance Left

Strong in society, vocal about our beliefs." Her eyes were kind, but they held a no-nonsense look. "For you, that might mean speaking up for your faith, being the voice of truth for your cast. By Karen Kingsbury Strong Society Vocal Beliefs Kind

To stand in the shadowof the scar up in the air.To stand-for-no-one-and-nothing.Unrecognized,for you alone.With all there is room for in that,even withoutlanguage. By Paul Celan Airto Withoutlanguage Stand Shadowof Scar

To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies. By Arun Shourie Derive Joy Give Things Beautiful

It means something, but it doesn't change anything. By C.m. Stunich Change

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. By Philip Pullman Meaning Read

No one really knows what words mean these days. By Mark Doten Days Words

When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning. By Marty Rubin Meaning Unclear

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. By Yves Klein Vocabulary Sensation Feel Soul Explaining

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might. By Phillips Brooks Bent Dare Live Clear Intention

It means my luck sucks," she said. "It was nice dating a guy wo treated me like a friend instead of a blow-up doll.""You were the one trying to unzip my pants in the truck!""Yeah, well, I thought you weren't interested. I didn't realize that your divining rod just pointed into a different direction.""You're killing me," he said. But it sounded like he was smiling. By Brigid Kemmerer Sucks Yeah Luck Doll Truck

Circumstance points to deeper meaning. By T.f. Hodge Circumstance Meaning Points Deeper

Does it mean I'm your wife?" He playfully teased holding up his long slender finger showcasing the band."Yep, but I'll be good to you." They kissed again. "You're too good." Dai whispered. "But I'm not going to be the lady of the house."Shi gasped in mock surprise. "You mean you're not going to cook for me and do the laundry?"Dai laughed. "Depends.""On?""How good you suck cock." Dai leaned forward and whispered in his ear."Really? I didn't realize I was marrying someone so demanding."-Dai and Shi By Rochelle H. Ragnarok Dai Yep Wife Good Shi

It means 'female dog,'" I'd explained to my sisters, "but it also means 'a woman who's crabby and won't let you be yourself. By David Sedaris Female Dog Sisters Explained Woman

It means that every waking breath you take, every step you take, you don't just take to move your own life forward, but ours. You take it knowing I'm right there with you, irrevocably tied to every decision you make. By Meredith Wild Forward Waking Breath Step Move

Friend. Before Mark, I'd known its definition. Now I knew its meaning. By Elizabeth Langston Friend Mark Definition Meaning Knew

But what does that mean? By Rakesh Satyal

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. By Tarthang Tulku Corner Cave Enters Meanings Generating

See The Meaning Not The Problem By Sascha Bosio Problem Meaning

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens. By Andrei Tarkovsky Meaning Miss

To be away from home and yet find oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet remain hidden from the world. By Charles Baudelaire World Home Find Oneself Centre

understanding about By Jacqueline Harvey Understanding

To be of no account to others. No one listens to you. By Julia Kristeva Account Listens

To give something meaning, is to give something hope, It is to give something life. By Yahya Mohamed Give Meaning Hope Life

hi sadaa sukham.' It means that one cannot have happiness alone. By Gillian Anderson Sukham Sadaa Happiness

Meaning is not creating a cool place to work with free food, Ping-Pong, volleyball, and dogs. Meaning is making the world a better place. By Guy Kawasaki Pingpong Volleyball Meaning Food Dogs

The perception of meaning, as I see it, more specifically boils down to becoming aware of a possibility against the background of reality or, to express it in plain words, to becoming aware of what can be done about a given situation. By Viktor E. Frankl Aware Meaning Words Situation Perception

Deliberate living: Conscious attention to the basics of life, and a constant attention to your immediate environment and its concerns - A job, a task, a book; anything requiring efficient concentration (Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you By Christopher Mccandless Attention Conscious Circumstance Deliberate Living

Sometimes translation stops you understanding. By China Mieville Understanding Translation Stops

Meaning, however, is no great matter. By Charles Stuart Calverley Meaning Matter Great

Customer service. That is what it means. By Jon Jones Customer Service

in a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning. Meaning By Aldous Huxley Meaning World

Take it in what sense thou wilt. By William Shakespeare Wilt Sense Thou

To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing By Pier Giorgio Frassati Faith Defend Truth Existing Live

Words don't mean, people mean. By Alfred Korzybski Words People

Unknown meaning, I thought. That was me. By Julie Schumacher Unknown Meaning Thought

Simple words have the complicated meaning. By Deepak Gupta Simple Meaning Words Complicated

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. By Emile M. Cioran Language World Devastate Blow Word

Man lives 'in' meanings, in that which is valid logically, esthetically, religiously. The most fundamental expression of this fact is the language which gives man the power to abstract from the concretely given and, after having abstracted from it, to return to it, to interpret and transform it. The most vital being is the being which has the word and is by the word liberated from bondage to the given. By Paul Tillich Meanings Esthetically Religiously Man Lives

To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect. By John Owen God Jesus Christ Effect Suppose

In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made. By Solomon Caesar Malan Nature Meaning Occupies Made Object

Meaning comes from engagement in positive work that challenges our personal capacity combined with knowledge that our positive work is making a larger contribution to the overall well-being of humanity and life on the planet. By Michael Strong Positive Work Meaning Planet Engagement

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. By Anna Jameson Earnestly Aspire Sense

Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing. By Robin Benway Fine Lovely Sounding Word Absolutely

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. By Samuel Butler Words Definition Enclosing Wilderness Idea

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. By George Eliot Meanings Depend Interpretation Key

When a word ceases to be a term of description and becomes merely a term of praise, it no longer tells you about the object: it only tells you about the speakers attitude to that object. By C.s. Lewis Term Object Praise Word Ceases

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him. By Jhumpa Lahiri Belonging Man Bit

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence. By Emily Dickinson Omnipotence Power Existence Function Alive

No action is safe from meaning. By Karan Mahajan Meaning Action Safe

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. By G.k. Chesterton Unlovable Love Loving Unpardonable Forgive

Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. By Logan Pearsall Smith Meaning Matters People Thing Set

In the big scheme, it means little. But in our little scheme, it's big. By Jeremy Morong Scheme Big

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms. By Haruki Murakami Compassion Traveling Companion Life Repeats

To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it. By Wallace Stevens Live World Existing Conceptions

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway. By Evan Parker Room Question Meaning Music Difficult

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. By Dean Ornish Meaning Malleable Despair Nihilism Put

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are. By Virginia Woolf Contemplate Desire Envy Sit Remember

To listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions. By Hermann Hesse Heart Waiting Open Soul Passion

Everything means something. By Philip Pullman

Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it. By Catherine Lowell Meaning Night Find Middle Expect

Sexual intercourse ... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast. By Anais Nin Sexual Intercourse Joyous Mast Impaling