After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you're speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you're speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.
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