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• Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple. Its temple is the heart. Its teaching is love and compassion. Its moral values are loving and respecting others, whoever they may be. Whether one is a lay person or a monastic, we have no other option if we wish to survive in this world.

  Dalai Lama

  Teaching, Heart, Simple

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• 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

  Mean, Growth, Essentials

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• When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.

  Deepak Chopra

  Expression, Divinity, Miraculous

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.9, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• 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

  Elude You, Together, Waste

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• Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Real, Wine

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.

  Audie Murphy

  Children, Mean, Texas

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• I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

  Jonathan Davis

  Choosing Friends, Knows

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• Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.

  Matt Groening

  Christmas, Santa, Birth

  "The Simpsons: Miracle on Evergreen Terrace". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• 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

  Grief, People, Suffering

  Andrew Solomon (2013). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.701, Simon and Schuster

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• I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophy, Teaching, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

  Robertson Davies

  Silence, Tongue, Sometimes

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Flower, People

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 15, 2016

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• At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

  Banksy

  Christmas, Lying, Years

  "Banksy wades into Catholic church sex abuse scandal with new sculpture" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.

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• We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Mean, Suffering, Use

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• 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

  Real, Faults, Transformation

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.58, Random House

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• 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

  Games, Trying, Losing

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1964). “If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature”

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• I'm into the true meaning of Christmas - Faith, Family, and Facial hair.

  Jase Robertson

  Hair, Meaning Of Christmas, Facial

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• People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

  Young-Ha Kim

  People, Meaning Of Life, Pruning

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  God, Spiritual, Real

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

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• We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.

  Joanna Macy

  Grief, Heart, Compassion

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• To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Office, World, Socialism

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the concept to the highest degree we are capable of. God's holiness is not simply the best we know infinitely bettered. We know nothing like the divine holiness. It stands apart, unique, unapproachable, incomprehensible and unattainable. The natural man is blind to it. He may fear God's power and admire His wisdom, but His holiness he cannot even imagine.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Unique, Men, Thinking

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.114, Fig

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• It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world

  Dalai Lama

  Dream, People, Humanity

  "Nobel lecture". www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jesus, Strong, Believe

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• Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Ignorance, Self, Community

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