To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
Silence is argument carried out by other means. — Che Guevara
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me. — Idi Amin
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. — Robert Baden-Powell
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. — John Wesley
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning. — Idi Amin
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. — Roberta Flack
Short Meaning Quotes
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. — Immanuel Kant
Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me. — Marilyn Monroe
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge. — Dick Gregory
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell
True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. — Albert Einstein
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Wise Quotes
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. — Charles Spurgeon
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now doesn't mean that you aren't headed for sunshine.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything. — African Proverbs
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
Hidden Messages Quotes
There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls. — Maya Deren
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it. — John Pilger
It may come as a surprise to many that there are ciphers (coded messages indicated by a letter or group of letters) in the Bible. Some are hidden; some, when revealed, are a key part of the narrative itself — Chuck Missler
A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but just the message sitting there, enigmatic, to decode. — Bill Gothard
Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing! — J. K. Rowling
Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across. — Michel Ocelot
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young. — Suzanne Fields
Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself. — Henry Reed
This show does something very special for the gay community. There's a message hidden inside the totally gaudy package that is so fun to watch. It's all about loving and accepting yourself, and every season I'm surprisingly moved by it. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Deeper Meaning Quotes
You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive. — Fridtjof Nansen
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. — Maya Angelou
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. — Jacob Bronowski
Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would recognize that prayer is but man uttering to God what is God's will. — Watchman Nee
...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder. — Minor White
You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that. — H. R. Giger
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man. — Aberjhani
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. — Andy Goldsworthy
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. — Blaise Pascal
Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it. — Sigurd F. Olson
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. — Anais Nin
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing. — Eckhart Tolle
To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world. — Pablo Casals
They say that if you're afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you're actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I'm afraid of dogs. — Norm MacDonald
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. — Ralph Marston
Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words — Dante Alighieri
Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson
Double Meaning Quotes
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! — Sayings
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. — Mae West
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. — Logan Pearsall Smith
I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs. — Jay-Z
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. — Ronnie Barker
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio. — Thomas Malthus
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. — Stanley Spencer
Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm the best sprinter around. — Justin Gatlin
True Meaning Quotes
Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge. — K. Pattabhi Jois
The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things. — Miyamoto Musashi
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
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. — Elif Safak
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. — Thomas Merton
Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns. — Bruce Coville
Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large. — Mas Oyama
True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength. — Kyuzo Mifune
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure. — Honore de Balzac
Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends. — Jay-Z
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
The limits of my language means the limits of my world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. — Laurence J. Peter
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. — Huey Newton
Christianity means a lot more than church membership. — Billy Sunday
I get by with a little help from my friends. — John Lennon
You must forge your own path for it to mean anything. — Rick Riordan
Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. — Melissa Marr
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. — J. B. Priestley
I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown? — Joe Pesci
I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be. — Lou Reed
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