Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew McConaughey

I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

Matisyahu

I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

Phil Knight

It doesn't matter how many people you offend, as long as you're getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising.

Mary Engelbreit

When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.

Martin Seligman

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.

Martin Seligman

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

Martin Seligman

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred.

Miley Cyrus

Music is the love of my life. It’s a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.

John Wooden

You can't make good decisions that are going to be meaningful, productive, when you lose control, and you have to maintain mental control, emotional control and to be able to perform physically up to your own particular level of competency; you have to keep your emotions under control.

Michael Schur

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 Kimmel

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.

Marianne Williamson

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

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

The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

Marianne Williamson

The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.

Mae Whitman

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

Michael Caine

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

Melanie Griffith

You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.

Mason Cooley

Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential.

Martin Yan

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Michael Franti

It doesnt matter if youre black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

Michael Chertoff

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

Michael Almereyda

It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.

Mia Wasikowska

I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.

Michael Shannon

You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

Michael Sheen

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.

Michael Shermer

Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It’s a brilliant song! C’mon…’Every day is like survival. You’re my lover, not my rival.’ What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse)

Niki Taylor

I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.

Nicolas Cage

The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.

Nora Ephron

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

Marilyn Monroe

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.

Noam Chomsky

As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is some meaning to their lives beyond what we agree is the case. I'd never try to talk them out of the delusions, which are necessary for them to live a life that makes some sense to them. These beliefs can provide a framework for deeds that are noble or savage, and anywhere in between, and there's every reason to focus attention on the deeds and the background for them, to the extent that we can grasp it.