Quotes about meaningful
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
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
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. Don DeLillo
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
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
meaningful winning fire-within
Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win. David Zippel
meaningful opportunity trying
Kofi Annan described World Summit on the Information Society as the first summit to deal primarily with an opportunity. The range of issues and potential opportunities that might be included in the Information Society is enormous. Compromise texts are very poor at addressing these in any meaningful way, and many governments see little point in trying. David Souter
meaningful thinking littles
While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point. David Simon
meaningful essentials hunters
I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life. David Petersen
meaningful want chance
Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful. Dana Spiotta
meaningful prayer circles
Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about ‘good things’ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of God’s love. Dallas Willard
meaningful struggle people
I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it seemed like there was something missing. I wanted to go someplace higher myself, and go there with the people who come to hear me play. So I began to envision events with their own gravity, that would pull a community of people together for a meaningful experience. Dave Madden
meaningful thinking possibility
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. David Levithan
meaningful sometimes difficult-experiences
Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful. Dalai Lama
meaningful religious real
The practice of altruism is the authentic way to live as a human being, and it is not just for religious people. As human beings, our purpose is to live meaningful lives, to develop a warm heart. There is meaning in being everyone's friend. The real source of peace amongst our families, friends and neighbours is love and compassion.
meaningful profound guarantees
The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving. Dinesh D'Souza