True Meaning Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Spiritual, Men, Order

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• What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them . . . the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in a last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.

  James Madison

  Exercise, People, Giving

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• 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

  Opportunity, Culture, Attention

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.241, Routledge

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• At the core of Fashletics you have a woman who is committed to exploring and expressing the true meaning of strength from the inside out and that will never change.  I am honored to serve a community that has proven to me over and over again that it wants to be a part of my quest to inspire positive change through physical means.

  Sarah Wilson

  Mean, Community, Inspire

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• Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss?
  Never heart could ever miss
  Comfort, where true meaning is.

  Nicholas Breton

  Heart, Kissing, Missing

  Nicholas Breton (1893). “A Bower of Delights: Being Interwoven Verse and Prose from the Works of Nicholas Breton”

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• 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

  Teaching, Godly, Law

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.273, Penguin UK

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• We are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Self, Spirit, Realizing

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• 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

  Dream, Differences, Waking Life

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• 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

  Halloween, Sacrifice, Animal

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• 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

  Real, Sacrifice, Love Is

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• 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

  Men, Doe, Found

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• Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.

  Jason Peter

  Fall, Meaning Of Life, Loved Ones

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• As we attend the temple, there can come to us a dimension of spirituality and a feeling of peace which will transcend any other feeling which could come into the human heart. We will grasp the true meaning of the words of the Savior when He said: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. … Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Giving, Feelings

  "Blessings of the Temple". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2015.

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• It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.

  William Tucci

  Important, Trying, Meaning Of Christmas

  "Comic book master Billy Tucci draws on personal faith to create a Christmas masterpiece". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God does not want worldly successes, He wants me. He wants my heart in submission to Him. Life is not just a few years to spend on self indulgence and career advancement. It is a privilege, a responsibility, a stewardship to be lived according to a much higher calling, God's calling. This alone gives true meaning to life.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Responsibility, Heart, Years

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• The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

  Martin Buber

  Neighbor, Meaning Of Love, Command

  Martin Buber (2013). “On Judaism”, p.212, Schocken

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• The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Century, Meaning Of Christmas, Gullibility

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2011

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• 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

  Bible, Believe, Prudent

  Galileo Galilei, Raymond John Seeger (1966). “Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works”

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• The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Remains

  Theodore Dreiser (2015). “Sister Carrie: Top American Novels”, p.54, 谷月社

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• 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

  Loyalty, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Equality, American Society

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• I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.

  Daniel Webster

  Bible, Book, Believe

  Daniel Webster, Dartmouth College (1974). “The papers of Daniel Webster: Correspondence”

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• The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Moments, Existence, Presence Of God

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• 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

  Heart, Loving Life, Starting Over

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• Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Mirrors, Dying

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