Quotes about meaning
meaningful people honest
I aim to have meaningful, honest interactions with people and be open to their uniqueness. Claudia Black
meaningful journey long
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey. Dante Alighieri
meaningful years agriculture
Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief. Dan Quayle
meaningful lying believe
I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity. Stephen Jay Gould
meaning safety
We didn't even know what safety was. We didn't know the meaning of the word. Bill Elliott
meaningful nature compassion
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. Alice Walker
meaningful powerful business-success
Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success. Anne M. Mulcahy
meaningful gratitude blessing
At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing. Ann Voskamp
meaningful team games
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games. Alastair Campbell
meaningful hope men
We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all. Albert Camus
meaning-of-life would-be stills
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
meaning-of-life life-is busy
Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life Amanda Hocking
meaningful meaning-of-life like-you
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful. Annie Lennox
meaningful
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful. Annie Dillard
meaningful regret thinking
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. Drew Gilpin Faust
meaningful imperfection pages
A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message. Drew Barrymore
meaningful promise world
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. Douglas Sirk
meaning-of-life doe modern
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? Don DeLillo
meaningful sleep exercise
I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
meaningful may influential
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
meaningful laughter real
Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
meaningful giving brain
It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing. Douglas Adams
meaningful pain opening-up
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling. Dorothy Allison
meaningful superficial
There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial Donna Tartt
meaningful digital internet
Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug. Don Rittner
meaning-something lines eccentric
Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. Crispin Glover
meaningful profound goal
We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time. Cynthia Heimel
meaningful lifetime used
37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime. Dustin Hoffman
meaningful cutting get-better
A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains. David Mamet
meaningful kissing dope
Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer. David Foster Wallace
meaningful running unique
a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...
meaningful stars thinking
But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars-compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.
meaningful children singing
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. David Antin