Meaningful Quotes

The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would be only you and your memories, the choices you've made and the people you've touched.

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.

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

Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.

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

The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge.

But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

Any of the yoga poses could be substituted in this analogy. How you practice is much more meaningful than what yoga moves you can or cannot do.

Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time

What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

Everything I do, it's all about making every moment a quality, meaningful moment.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.

Meaningful work is within your grasp.

Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

A song is a meaningful thing.

I think a lot of people assume from my music and stuff I'm constantly talking about deep and meaningful things, but then with my friends I'm just a class clown.

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.

There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20′s and 30′s... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.

The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.

Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.

To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.

We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this