Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.