Meaningful Quotes
Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.
Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.
Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.
Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.
Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.
If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.
I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.
The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.
Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.
...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.
To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.
The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream
It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.
I think that's the important thing - being aware of that inspiration and being able to interpret it into something that's meaningful for you.
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
I ran the Boston Marathon out of love. I believe that love is the basis of all meaningful human endeavor. Yet it was a love that was incomplete until it was shared with others.
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!
The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree.
When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.
