Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ball

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Al Oerter

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Al Seckel

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

Chogyam Trungpa

The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

Chip Conley

What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?

Dhani Jones

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

Dave Chappelle

You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

David Guterson

Fiction is socially meaningful.

Dave Barry

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Charles Dickens

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Charles Spurgeon

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Alan Alda

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

David Allen

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

Dave Barry

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.

Eckhart Tolle

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

Adrian Rogers

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

Louis Kronenberger

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Neale Donald Walsch

The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see 'show up', not what part of another you can capture and hold.

John Friend

Having a similar outlook on life is the central key for long-term sustainability in any love relationship.

Gael Garcia Bernal

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

Neil LaBute

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Sue Johnson

The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.

Sigmund Freud

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves