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 Meanings 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.
Man's Search For Meaning Quotes
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl
Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. — Viktor E. Frankl
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. — Viktor E. Frankl
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering — Viktor E. Frankl
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement. — Viktor E. Frankl
Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate. — Viktor E. Frankl
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. — Viktor E. Frankl
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. — Viktor E. Frankl
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl
But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise. — Viktor E. Frankl
Mans Search For Meaning Quotes
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. — Viktor E. Frankl
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. — Viktor E. Frankl
There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man. — Viktor E. Frankl
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.
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. — Viktor E. Frankl
The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life. — Shoghi Effendi
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. — Erich Fromm
Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now doesn't mean that you aren't headed for sunshine.
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. — Viktor E. Frankl
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. — Viktor E. Frankl
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms. — Viktor E. Frankl
Search For Knowledge Quotes
The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it. — Marcus Garvey
Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge. — Abu Hurairah
My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey. — Tupac Shakur
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. — Bertrand Russell
I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven. — Anselm Kiefer
If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge. — Egyptian Proverbs
The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer. — Fatema Mernissi
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched. — E. O. Wilson
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise! — Ajahn Chah
Search For Truth Quotes
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. — Albert Einstein
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it. — Thomas Aquinas
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. — M. Scott Peck
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware — Paul Tillich
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life. — Karen Horney
The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there. — Bart D. Ehrman
the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. — Karl Jaspers
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. — Dan Brown
We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life. — H. Emilie Cady
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. — Mae West
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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