Quotes about meaning
meaningful book people
Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people. Neal A. Maxwell
meaningful technology way
When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things. Mitchel Resnick
meaningful republic needs
We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic. Michael D. Higgins
meaningful fake humanity
In a world where your interactions with humans are solely about rating one to five, two things happen: One is all humanity is lost in the name of fake pleasantries and also there's no nuance to that system. There's no room for complex interactions that are rich and meaningful. Michael Schur
meaningful jobs integrity
I believe that Americans are entitled. We're entitled to have a job that makes us feel like we have some dignity in our lives, that we live a life of integrity, and that we have good family relationships and our relationships with our friends and our families and our coworkers are enriching and meaningful. Michael Kimmel
meaningful night talking
Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers. Marianne Williamson
meaningful light long
The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world. Marianne Williamson
meaningful world helping
The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you. Marianne Williamson
meaningful husband father
Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful Mikhail Baryshnikov
meaningful song writing
Well, you know, when you're putting together a show, you've got to be careful not to load it up with the new stuff. We have to play the songs that people want to hear, too. People may come thinking, "Oh, I've just got to hear this song." Or maybe they'll write me a letter saying a certain song is really meaningful to them, so we'll be sure to play those songs. Margo Timmins
meaningful struggle beloved-community
Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community. Martin Luther King, Jr.
meaningful perspective poetry
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world. Naomi Shihab Nye
meaningful roots giving
I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society. Mo Ibrahim
meaningful warrior men
Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. Miyamoto Musashi
meaningful heart america
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people. Mitt Romney
meaningful essence choices
Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret. Mireille Guiliano
meaningful testimony
Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel. R. C. Sproul
meaningful average language
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word. Portia de Rossi
meaningful thinking long
As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure. Nelson Mandela
meaningful suffering poverty
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful. Nelson Mandela
meaningful real decision
You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward. Oprah Winfrey
meaningful people competition
I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing. Oprah Winfrey
meaningful spiritual real
I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do. Oprah Winfrey
meaningful life-is easy
An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy. Oliver North
meaningful sometimes metaphor
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. Kelly Corrigan
meaningful expression ordinary
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. Paul Ricoeur
meaningful world life-is
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. Paul Ricoeur
meaningful country commitment
We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. Paul Gillmor
meaningful laughter knowing
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. Patrice O'Neal
meaningful psychology healthy
One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them. Park Dietz
meaningful thinking fool
Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is, Lily Collins
meaningful america community
To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
meaningful real interesting
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world. Lev Grossman